[argyllcms] Re: Firefox color managment?

  • From: Lars Tore Gustavsen <lars.tore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:21:40 +0100

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 4:33 AM, Leonard Evens
<len@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am running firefox 3.06 under Fedora 9 Linux.
>
> Firefox 3 is supposed to have color managment.   There is an add-on you add
> and then you can choose a display profile.   If you leave it blank, you
> are supposed to get the system profile.   But I get different results
> when specify the profile than when I leave it blank.   (I compared the
> same image loaded into fire fox as a file and using Eye of Gnome, which
> does use the system profile. they looked different when the space was
> left blank and the same when the path to the profile was specified.)
>
> Presumably, the problem is that the firefox add-on I  used doesn't know
> where to look for the system profile under Linux.
>
> Any comments or suggestions or ideas about the matter?
>
>
> --
> Leonard Evens <len@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Mathematics Department, Northwestern University
>
>

Last time we discussed this Hal bug reported this.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462398
So if nothing has changed you have to specify the profile under linux.

Lars Tore Gustavsen

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