Mozilla today launched an official Firefox extension called Extended Color Management. As the name suggests, this extension gives users more control over the color management settings on their devices.
In a description of the extension, it reads: “For certain applications, such as video/image authoring, color management in collaboration between Firefox and the operating system can be problematic, especially on macOS.
This extension makes it easy to flip over the necessary preferences to make sure the images and videos you see don’t have any color modifications from Firefox or the operating system.
Mozilla says it developed the extension in partnership with visual effects studio Industrial Light & Magic, specifically to make it easier for users to see the colors they expect.
Mozilla explains The Firefox browser uses the operating system’s color management by default to optimize and render colors and images to improve the user’s browsing experience. With this extension, creators and their vendors can now disable color management and then simply restart the Firefox browser so that the colors of the graphics or videos are consistent, even on different operator terminals.
This enables media engineers to make consistent and reliable assumptions about the color pipeline between what is displayed in the browser and the actual pixel values sent to the computer monitor.”
With this extension, firefox browsers provide creators with a turnkey solution that can simply turn off in-browser color management when sharing content between color-calibrated and matched displays, so that both Lucasfilm and remote partners can see predetermined colors and view samples more easily than before, mozilla says.