Adobe, Stop Killing My Internets!
I am not sure if it just me, but lately it seems that Adobe Flash Player is becoming more and more unreliable, and causing my web browser (be it Chrome, FireFox and/or I.E. — I prefer Chrome, although I wish it supported ICC profiles like FireFox) to constantly crash.
Loading …As Adobe Flash is widely used it, unfortunately, is not practical to completely remove it from your machine; however there are a few simple tools which let you automatically block Flash from loading unless you white-list the site or click on the flash to play it. This technique is also great for preventing those annoying Flash ads that popup in your face (Although some of them do look pretty cool)!
Continue Reading To Find Out How To Stop Adobe Killing Your Internets!
Firefox 3 And Colour Management
I recently come across an article by Datacolor (the company who make the Spyder range of monitor / printer calibrators) which explains how to enable ICC profiles in Firefox 3. It is a very simple boolean (true/false) property which you need to change in the ‘hidden’ Firefox configuration.
In Firefox enter about:config in to the address bad and press enter. A warning message will show up saying “This might void your warranty!” ignore this and click “I’ll be careful, I promise” (don’t worry you don’t have warranty anyway ;-). Next, in the filter bar type in gfx.color_management.enabled. There should now only be one option in the list of configuration options, and it should be set to false by default. Simply double click this option to change it to true (it should now be bold, indicating it is no longer the default value). Restart Firefox and you should be up and running with ICC profiles.
Check out the original post by Datacolor for more information and for two images which will indicate if your browse supports ICC profiles.
