Mozilla Releases Extended Color Management Plugin for Firefox

Mozilla released Extended Color Management in collaboration with visual effects studio Industrial Light & Magic for the Firefox web browser.

Designed to provide a simple on/off to use operating system color management in the Firefox web browser, it offers Firefox users the option to disable the use of the operating system’s color management capabilities in the browser.

Web browsers like Firefox use the operating system’s color management options by default to “optimize and reproduce colors and images,” according to Mozilla. While that is generally desired, it can cause problems in areas that require colors to be identical across devices and operating systems.

The Extended Color Management plugin was created to add this capability to the Firefox web browser. It installs in a matter of seconds and displays a single button on its interface when its icon is activated. A click on the icon enables or disables the use of the operating system’s color management feature.

Since it is enabled by default, clicking the button for the first time will disable it. A reboot is required before the changes take effect. Once disabled, Firefox will display “consistent graphics and video colors,” even across different types of devices and operating systems.

With the extension, creators and their vendors can now disable color management and then simply restart the Firefox browser so graphics or video colors are consistent, even across different operating units. This allows media engineers to make consistent and reliable assumptions about the color pipeline between content displayed in a browser and actual pixel values sent to a computer screen.

Color management can be turned off in most applications, for example in Adobe Photoshop, but some content may only be viewed in a browser, and the extension ensures that this content is displayed with the highest color accuracy possible.

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Mozilla describes a use case provided by the new extension for Industrial Light & Magic, best known for its work on various Star Wars and Marvel movies and shows:

With this extension, Firefox offers creators a turnkey solution to simply disable color management in the browser when sharing content between color calibrated and blended displays, so both Lucasfilm and remote partners can see the desired colors. and see the “journals” more easily than before.

In short: the browser extension helps ensure that content is as color accurate as possible, no matter how and where it is viewed.

Firefox users can refer to Mozilla’s blog post on the matter or head over to Mozilla’s add-on repository to install the extension directly.

Now you: What is your opinion about the new extension? (via Caschy)

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