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The end of a love affair

Thu Jun 12, 2008, 4:52 AM
  • Mood: It's Hot
  • Listening to: Gotan Project / Goran Bregovic
  • Reading: Found Magazine
  • Watching: The Godfather Part I
  • Playing: music
  • Eating: penguins
  • Drinking: loads
I used to be a Microsoft Windows XP user and it took me fucking ages before I finally decided to switch from Internet Explorer to Firefox. But it opened my eyes... When I moved on to Mac, the first thing I did was installing my beloved Firefox, browsing the Internet for hours. Firefox was the one and only future, and most of all: it was free. Easy to use, never crashing, I fell in love with it and we started a passionate love affair. I was faithful and promised myself not to ever use any other web browser.

That was until today. Today I realised that my beloved Firefox is actually a stoopid piece of software that does not understand embedded color profiles, in three words it simply: fucks them up.

After spending about four hours calibrating my screen and reading about color profiles, I have come to realise that as much as I used to adore and cherish Firefox, maybe it is time for me to move on... and give Safari a try. :blush:

For all of you mac users that will not get convinced by this revelation, go have a look at this: WEB BROWSER COLOR MANAGEMENT Tutorial. Found it really useful and it made me realise why so many pictures look desaturated/washed out when viewed with web browsers such as Firefox, Camino etc. As for the others, well go check it out too. Because I said so. :aww:


I'm sorry Firefox, you served me well but all good things come to an end. :heart:

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*99thbone:icon99thbone: Jun 12, 2008, 5:31:32 AM
good to know -- recently my firefox has been crashing -- i think -- i have pushed it to its limits -- later days

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^Gonzale:iconGonzale: Jun 12, 2008, 6:20:50 AM
yeah ive sene firefox crash over and over lately...
`gnato:icongnato: Jun 12, 2008, 7:35:06 AM
hehe colourmanagment... not needed for surreal colours :)

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*akasleep:iconakasleep: Jun 12, 2008, 7:52:19 AM
I used Safari since its released. And it's the best I ever use. And it's beautiful.

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=Metiu:iconMetiu: Jun 12, 2008, 8:08:43 AM
eheheh i've never noticed this problem cause i dont care too much about the colours.
anyway i use both and i must say that lately safari has become very interesting, even concerning the computation time.
and the latest release for leopard has the super-mega-fantastic widget: the web-clip.

but please remember firefox!
:P

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~zort:iconzort: Jun 12, 2008, 8:13:51 AM
firefox is going to feature full color profile mangament with the next release. 8-)
~p0rtishead:iconp0rtishead: Jun 12, 2008, 8:39:16 AM
Safari is the worst browser ever!.. You're better with Firefox... and anyway Firefox 3 is almost out :)

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~WhiteForest:iconWhiteForest: Jun 12, 2008, 8:57:18 AM
That sucks. But I don't use a Mac{probably never will} and Firefox always runs fine for me. [:

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~Corvi:iconCorvi: Jun 12, 2008, 9:46:30 AM
I didnt even botherd with installing Firefox on my Mac ..

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