Paul’s Ramblings

Firefox 3 is soon to be released and it comes with a nice tweak for the visually fussy, such as myself. It is now possible to load the colour profile for your specific display (LCD screen) directly into Firefox. Why would one wish to do this? In a word, perfection. The colour profile lets Firefox present images in true to life colours on your display.

1. To start using Firefox 3 now download the beta version.
2. On your computer, or the web site of your display’s manufacturer, search for the correct ICC colour profile (usually a *.icc file, sometimes bundled with other driver software)
3. In Firefox 3, bring up the configuration screen by browsing to “about:config” in the address / location bar.
4. In the Filter field type in ‘gfx’.
5. Change the value “gfx.color_management.display_profile” to the full path of your display’s ICC profile
6. Change the value “gfx.color_management.enable” to “True”.
7. Restart Firefox

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