Mozilla Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 and colour profiles

After upgrading to Fedora 11 (and thus upgrading Firefox to 3.5 Beta 4), I noticed that Firefox was not correctly identifying some of the ICC colour profiles and thus was rendering some of the images incorrectly.

According to this wiki page, it should be a simple matter of going to about:config and changing the value of gfx.color_management.mode to 1, which enables full colour management (default is 2, which enables colour management only on properly tagged images). This, however, does not seem to work…

After looking into the issue, it seems that there’s a bug with the way in which Firefox identifies the colour profiles, resulting in some incorrectly rendered images. Although the bug has been fixed in the trunk release (i.e. the nightly/hourly builds will have the bug-fix), the “proper” versioned releases will not.

From what I can work out, the bug-fix won’t be pushed into the main release until the last minute, and will most likely be put in the 3.5.1 release (or possibly even the 3.6 release!), so if correct colour profiles are important to you, you’re either going to want to start using the hourly/nightly builds or downgrade back to an earlier version of Firefox which doesn’t have the bug.

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3 Responses to “Mozilla Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 and colour profiles”

  1. Afal says:

    PROTIP: The clue is in the word BETA

  2. Hurr says:

    The bug is in RC2 too. And I’m affect too. :(

  3. I agree with that. My another concerned is that firefox is too long to launch and after their several updates, firefox becomes heavier for the computer system.

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