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Firefox 4, has a very useful interface and is
color managed. IE9 doesn't work for me, Safari is obnoxiously big and forces you to read little text through apple's non-hinted (blurry) anti-aliasing, and Chrome doesn't expose its color-management options and it's disabled by default. Color-management is increasingly important, since more and more consumer monitors feature a wide gamut. You don't want every person in your photos to look sunburnt, or do you?
Firefox 3 has been color managed, although with a few burps along the way. All is good now though, except the default. And Chrome is partially managed. You just have to configure them as such. FF 3 needs to be set to color management mode 1 (the default is 2, which doesn't assume an sRGB profile for untagged images - bad for a wide-gamut monitor). It's only aware of ICC version 2 profiles though, not version 4 profiles. In reality, this isn't a big issue as it seems almost all profiled photos are version 2.
I can't say what is the default on FF 4, as all of my default settings were copied when I installed it. But I hope it defaults to mode 1 now.
Chrome can also easily be configured to be aware of the color space of the monitor, but it still doesn't look at the ICC color profile of images, so it assumes everything is in sRGB. You just have to put " --enable-monitor-profile" at the end of the target line in the shortcut properties. Thus, everything in sRGB on the web will look right on a wide-gamut monitor, but anything in a different color space will of course be wrong. I don't think this is nearly as big of an issue as the monitor profile, however - without that, everything would look wrong. Now, only a tiny percentage will be - a deal-breaker perhaps for those who deal with AdobeRGB photos all day online, but really... Who does that?
