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Firefox 3: Color Profile Support (Oh the Pretty, Pretty Colors)

“One thing that has always irritated me about looking at
pictures on the web is that browsers don’t seem to display
photographs properly. And by ‘photographs’ I really mean ‘colors.’
I spend a lot of time tweaking pictures in Photoshop, but when I
upload them to my Flickr account and look at them in Firefox 2 the
colors aren’t the same–they’re more washed out, dull, and
lifeless. It’s a subtle thing, but annoying nonetheless.

“Here’s an example of what I mean. The following is a
split-photo created from two screenshots–one of my Flickr photos
displayed in Firefox 2, and the same photo displayed in
Photoshop…”

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