FireFox- Blotchiness

[DreDaze]

so recently my browser updated on it's own to firefox 3.5...since then i started noticing on other peoples photos that there was a lot of blotchiness in the shadows/darker areas...not knowing what the originals were, i figured this was just due to their PP...i recently uploaded some of my photos to a website, and when looking thru firefox...they look really strange...the blotchiness makes them look ridiculous...it's almost like a posterize effect...

my color management mode is set to 1, which i think is right?

anyone else experiencing this?

[René Damkot]

You probably have a monitor profile that's not supported: Either V4 or one without tone reproduction curves. It's a bug (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=509710).
If it's the older bug (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=497363) your experiencing, an update to 3.5.2 should fix that.

http://www.getcolormanaged.com/color-management/ff351/

Use FF 3.0, Flock 2.5 or use a different monitor profile.
Also, file a bug report. This should get solved.

[DreDaze]

thanks for the reply...i tried downloading 3.5.2...didn't help, i think i'm just going to go back to firefox 3.0 like you suggested...i did report the bug though

thanks again...maybe i need to look into a new monitor...

[Faolan]

The rendering engine in Firefox is crap, I've noticed banding in shadows and highlights on jpg images in profiled and non-profiled images and this is with colour management on or off. It's not just me I know two designers who are hacked off with it as well. One of those designers is using a high end Lacie monitor.

This isn't the first time I've been critical of the 3.5 release, nor likely to be the last.

[basroil]

The rendering engine in Firefox is crap, I've noticed banding in shadows and highlights on jpg images in profiled and non-profiled images and this is with colour management on or off. It's not just me I know two designers who are hacked off with it as well. One of those designers is using a high end Lacie monitor.

This isn't the first time I've been critical of the 3.5 release, nor likely to be the last.

My monitor saw banding issues as well, but forcing firefox to use srgb cleared it up. Not the greatest solution, but at least acceptable as 99% of firefox users have no color management anyway.

[BeritOlam]

Daze, have you tried looking at things in Flock, Google Chrome, or (heaven-forbid!!!) IE8??

[DreDaze]

Daze, have you tried looking at things in Flock, Google Chrome, or (heaven-forbid!!!) IE8??


i don't know what flock, or google chrome are...

just using the IE tab in firefox though gives good results, so i'm sure IE8 would work...

actually all i did was go back and install firefox 3.0 instead, and it works like it used to...

[René Damkot]

Daze, have you tried looking at things in Flock, Google Chrome, or (heaven-forbid!!!) IE8??

Actually, I'm using Flock 2.5 (http://www.flock.com/) at the moment, with the FF3.0 Color management Add-on. No problems here ;)