[argyllcms] Re: Firefox color managment?

  • From: Leonard Evens <len@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:54:57 -0600

On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 13:40 -0800, Hal V. Engel wrote:
> On Thursday 26 February 2009 10:21:40 pm Lars Tore Gustavsen wrote:
> > 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
> 
> The bug has been setting there for over 4 months now.  It is assigned to 
> Product "Core Graveyard" which I think means that the firefox developers 
> don't 
> care one little bit if it gets fixed or not.  One way to perhaps get this 
> moving would be for users to vote for this so that it had a higher vote total.
> 
> Hal
> 

How do I vote?



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