441065 - ICC color profiles do not work in Firefox 3.0 for PowerPC-Macs

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Rotis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061004 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061004 Firefox/3.0

Firefox 3.0 is supposed to support ICC color profiles. On a friends Intel-Mac it works, on my PowerPC-Macs it does not.

Example sites:

http://www.color.org/version4html.xalter
http://www.fotocommunity.de/pc/pc/mypics/435997/display/5330766
http://www.fotocommunity.de/pc/pc/mypics/572427/display/4763821

On my PowerPC-Mac (OSX 10.5.3) the sites above work fine in Safari 3, but not in Firefox 3.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Rotis]

Attachment: Should look like a normal picture

Comment 2

[Rotis]

Attachment: Parrot pic in wrong colors

Comment 3

[philippe (part-time)]

Are you using a custom made colour-profile for your monitor?

(I don't see any problem on my side, btw)

Comment 4

[Rotis]

It turnes out that FF 3.0 comes with deactivated ICC color profile settings. You have to set the preferences manually via 'about:config' from FALSE to TRUE and it works after a restart:

gfx.color_management.enabled > TRUE

Also described here:

"The good news is that Firefox 3 does include full support for color profiles. The bad news is that color profile support will be turned off by default when Firefox 3 ships." http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2008/04/29/633/

Comment 5

[philippe (part-time)]

It was that simple then. Thanks for the feedback anyway.