[argyllcms] Re: Firefox color managment?

  • From: Leonard Evens <len@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:06:30 -0600

On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 07:21 +0100, 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.

thanks.  That answers my question.

> 
> Lars Tore Gustavsen
> 


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