Bug 350813 – www-client/mozilla-firefox displays some images more purple

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Andrey 2011-01-06 12:02:23 UTC]

Firefox displays some images more purple than they are.

Reproducible: Always




$ emerge --info
Portage 2.2.0_alpha13 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.5.2, glibc-2.12.1-r3, 2.6.36-gentoo-r3 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.36-gentoo-r3-x86_64-Pentium-R-_Dual-Core_CPU_T4400_@_2.20GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:45:03 +0000
ccache version 3.1.3 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     4.1_p9
dev-lang/python:     2.6.6-r1, 2.7.1, 3.1.3
dev-util/ccache:     3.1.3
dev-util/cmake:      2.8.3-r1
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1-r1
sys-apps/openrc:     0.6.8
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.4
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.68
sys-devel/automake:  1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.21
sys-devel/gcc:       4.5.2
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.4-r1
sys-devel/make:      3.82
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.36.1 (sys-kernel/linux-headers)
Repositories: gentoo xorik
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=core2 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--keep-going"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs buildpkg ccache distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.yandex.ru/gentoo-distfiles "
LANG="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
LINGUAS="ru"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/xorik"
SYNC="rsync://mirror.yandex.ru/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 automount bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam firefox flac fortran fuse gdbm gdu gif gimp gnome gnome-keyring gpm gtk iconv ipv6 jpeg laptop lcms libnotify mad madwifi mikmod mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib nautilus ncurses networkmanager nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf perl png policykit ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 readline samba sdl session spell sse sse2 sse3 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd threads tiff truetype udev unicode usb userlocales v4l v4l2 vorbis wifi x264 xcb xinerama xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="*" APACHE2_MODULES="authz_host dir alias mime rewrite vhost_alias" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" FOO2ZJS_DEVICES="hp1018" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="mouse keyboard synaptics evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="ru" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel i810 i915 i965" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" 
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Andrey 2011-01-06 12:04:50 UTC]

Created attachment 259043 [details]
screenshot

[Comment 2 Andrey 2011-01-06 12:05:21 UTC]

Created attachment 259044 [details]
sample image

[Comment 3 Andrey 2011-01-06 12:09:19 UTC]

screenshot: http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/5008/firefoxv.png
sample image: http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/8530/pichn.png

[Comment 4 Ján Bednár 2011-01-07 09:02:16 UTC]

Same here.

Please compare the same webpage in firefox and chromium:
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/2363/firefoxw.png
http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/8231/chromiumg.png

Image in header is blue but firefox displays it more purple than it really is.
Displayed image is PNG file.

eix -I libpng
[I] media-libs/libpng
     Available versions:  
        (1.2)   1.2.44
        (0)     1.4.3 (~)1.4.4 (~)1.4.4[1] ~1.4.5 ~1.4.5[1]
        {apng static-libs}
     Installed versions:  1.2.44(1.2)(10:46:33 AM 11/12/2010) 1.4.4[1](10:48:56 AM 11/12/2010)(apng)
     Homepage:            http://www.libpng.org/
     Description:         Portable Network Graphics library

[1] "mozilla" /var/lib/layman/mozilla

[Comment 5 Ján Bednár 2011-01-07 09:05:14 UTC]

Created attachment 259117 [details]
emerge --info

[Comment 6 Ján Bednár 2011-01-07 09:07:00 UTC]

Forgot to mention that the 'purple' happens both with firefox 3.6 and firefox 4.


# eix -I -c firefox
[I] www-client/firefox (4.0_beta9_pre-r2[1]@01/02/2011): Firefox Web Browser
[I] www-client/firefox-bin (3.6.13@12/13/2010): Firefox Web Browser
[1] "mozilla" /var/lib/layman/mozilla

Found 2 matches.

[Comment 7 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) 2011-01-09 17:27:03 UTC]

I'm reassigning to X11 after talking to Jory (anarchy).

[Comment 8 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn 2011-01-09 20:12:52 UTC]

Could be a cairo problem. Do you get the same colors when you print to file?

[Comment 9 Jory A. Pratt 2011-01-09 20:19:24 UTC]

actually has nothing to do with cairo, if you refer to same image in imagemagick does it display the same way?

[Comment 10 Andrey 2011-01-10 06:27:53 UTC]

"display /tmp/pic.png" shows sample image in normal colors

[Comment 11 Andrey 2011-01-10 06:31:29 UTC]

Print to file from firefox to pdf file makes pdf with "purple" colors

[Comment 12 Michał Górny 2011-01-10 08:22:45 UTC]

Does Firefox use some kind of color profiles?

[Comment 13 Andrey 2011-01-10 09:07:30 UTC]

In ubuntu 10.10 this file displays correct in same version of firefox

[Comment 14 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn 2011-01-10 09:56:40 UTC]

Does the problem happen for a newly created user too?

[Comment 15 Andrey 2011-01-10 11:53:57 UTC]

nothing changes with new user and new firefox profile (image still "purple")

[Comment 16 Andrey 2011-01-11 19:50:54 UTC]

Any ideas? I can try to build firefox with diffrent use-flags, or try old version of cairo/libpng

[Comment 17 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2011-01-11 20:54:23 UTC]

Did you try disabling firefox's color management? I'm not sure which about:config option handles this, but I would definitely try one of those options first.

In any case, I doubt it's an X11 issue.

Cheers

[Comment 18 Andrey 2011-01-12 05:45:22 UTC]

Thank you, Rémi Cardona.
I set "gfx.color_management.mode" to "0" in about:config and restart firefox. All images is normal now!

[Comment 19 Mart Raudsepp 2011-01-12 17:53:42 UTC]

I think mozilla team should briefly review the surfaced facts before closing the bug

[Comment 20 Jory A. Pratt 2011-01-14 16:38:46 UTC]

We will not override the default if the user wishes to they may do so as always.