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Web browsers way too saturated

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znerk

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Feb 4, 2014
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Hello

I own a Mac PRO and a Nec monitor.

When I compare Safari and Chrome(or firefox), colors look way too saturated on Chrome and firefox.

Safari shows images realistic, but Chrome and Firefox looks way too saturated.


Any tips?
 
znerk said:
Hello

I own a Mac PRO and a Nec monitor.

When I compare Safari and Chrome(or firefox), colors look way too saturated on Chrome and firefox.

Safari shows images realistic, but Chrome and Firefox looks way too saturated.


Any tips?
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I stopped using Chrome on some sites because of this. I suspect some Google Chrome colour rendering tricks as I can see the same thing (in a lesser extent though) on my MBP. On my calibrated NEC monitor the difference with Safari is eye-striking. (I don't use Firefox).
 
SadChief said:
I stopped using Chrome on some sites because of this. I suspect some Google Chrome colour rendering tricks as I can see the same thing (in a lesser extent though) on my MBP. On my calibrated NEC monitor the difference with Safari is eye-striking. (I don't use Firefox).
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It's actually equally bad with Firefox.
I just say wtf :S
 
It's been a little while since I looked into this, but it could be because Safari supports Color profiles better than the others by default. I believe Chrome and Firefox used to have URL command line options in handling color profiles or images that weren't tagged with one. It's possible this is why you're seeing differences.
 
riggles said:
It's been a little while since I looked into this, but it could be because Safari supports Color profiles better than the others by default. I believe Chrome and Firefox used to have URL command line options in handling color profiles or images that weren't tagged with one. It's possible this is why you're seeing differences.
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Ye its actually is. I disabled the hardware and color profile in firefox, and the colors were correct. The problem was that the image showed far too many details. Compared to safari the image had way too much details, and it was way too sharp.. even though I got color fixed.
 
Use the NEC multi-profiler tool to set the display to sRGB when you are not doing any color critical work and then set it back to wide gamut with your calibrated setting when you are.
 
As others have said if it's an NEC wide gamut display only viewing in Firefox with force color as tagged turned on will display all sites correctly if you arent using the NEC sRGB mode. (My older 2690wuxi2 has a horrible srgb mode).

So to sum it up:

Firefox: Can force all images to use sRGB using the about:config settings
Safari: Will show tagged images correctly but all others will be over-saturated
Chrome: Don't use with a wide gamut display
 
I have the exact same issue.
Safari displays colors accurately while colors appear too saturated in Firefox.
 
I just found a solution >>>

Open Firefox...then:

In the URL I typed:
about:config
That brought me to the configuration page.

In the search field I entered gfx:
There it was - the colormanagement.

gfx.color_management.enablev4:
Because I normally create version 4 profiles I switched the default value "false" to "true" (double click the entry). If I would use a V4 profile without doing this, Firefox would not use the profile without telling me.

gfx.color_management.mode:
This is the bad one. It is set to 2 by default. And that means "only color manage images that have an ICC tag". But as one of my assumptions was, that a lot of images in the web don't have this tag, there is no colormanagement at all.
This guy should be set to 1. That means color manage everything. If there is no tag, then assume it is sRGB.
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Source:
http://forums.newtek.com/showthread.php?144343-Setting-Firefox-to-quot-better-quot-colormanagement

Now Firefox displays colors the same way Safari does.
 
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