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User profile for user: chumtarou
chumtarou Author
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Safari 6 color shift issue

With the new Mountain Lion release of Safari 6, is anyone else experiencing strange color shifts? For example, a webpage may look normal but opening another tab and viewing the site again the color goes slightly darker. One major issue with this is JPGs and GIFs go darker but the html colors remain the same so there is a color shift between background html colors vs the equivalent color in the image.


Attached is an example of the color shift on Apple's website. Notice the green on the left is slightly darker than the right.


I have tested this on 2 macs running Moutain Lion. Do you see this issue as well?User uploaded file


To replicate, open Apple's site, then Command Click the Apple icon on the website to duplicate the tab and create a few of them. Now switch between the tabs and refresh one and you will start seeing the color shift where 1 becomes darker than the rest.

Posted on Jul 27, 2012 12:14 PM

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User profile for user: chumtarou
chumtarou Author
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Jul 27, 2012 3:30 PM in response to chumtarou

Here is another strange color issue with Safari. You will see a slight change in the gray background of the book marks bar where the bookmarks are. It's very slight but there is some strange color issues with Safari.


This does not show in other browsers.

User uploaded file


I have calibrated the LED Cinema Display with standard tools in System Preferences. Any calibration used will will end with varying degrees of color shifts. I have also created a new user with default settings I although it is very slight, once you see it, it's hard not to notice. Anyone else see these?

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User profile for user: chumtarou
chumtarou Author
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Jul 30, 2012 5:44 PM in response to Bl!nd

Thanks for sharing the link Blind - hope Apple has a fix soon as I'm worried it's not just Safari but the issue may be system wide affecting the calibration of the entire screen. The difference in Safari is that it tries to actually show the actual calibrated screen where everything else is actually wrong.


As an example, if you were to use Apple's calibration tools in System Prefs/Monitors to calibrate your monitor, the very last stage of saving the calibration the screen appears to revert or modify the settings at the last moment. This is concerning for anyone doing color sensitive projects.


I hope 10.8.1 will fix this color problem soon.

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User profile for user: jimhere
jimhere
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Jul 30, 2012 6:34 PM in response to chumtarou

This may be related: When using Safari 6's new Web Inspector, I notice hsl colors are off by a couple percent. For example, if I was making a css background color at hsl 200 50 50, (blue, medium saturation, medium lightness), the inspector would say the color was really 197, not 200.


Chrome still reads it as 200. Hopefully this is just a Safari 6 dot 0 thing.

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User profile for user: chumtarou
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Jul 31, 2012 6:49 PM in response to jimhere

Thanks for the added info Jim - With these color issues and frozen scrolling issues and various crashes, it does appear Safari 6 hasn't been fully baked yet. Hope a fix comes soon.


Other strange oddities:

- 1Password dialog box flashes a dark/light color when opening

- sometimes scrolling stops but resizing window fixes it

- partial site shows and a quit/reopen is only way to fix

- I'm not sure if this is new but command clicking a Google search results in a garbled Google url in history instead of the page it went to

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User profile for user: anandaguy
anandaguy
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Aug 15, 2012 2:12 AM in response to chumtarou

YES!! I just installed Mountain Lion and discovered this exact issue in Safari 6.0.


I've noticed random jpeg images in different web pages are darker than other jpeg images which were saved with the exact same RGB color profile (both in Photoshop prior to Saving as JPEG for the Web, and when Saving for the Web (as a JPEG).


I discovered that THE PROBLEM GOES AWAY WHEN I revert to the iMac Color Profile, and view the webpage once again (as when I read the other posting regarding monitor color profiles I decided to check this out--I had been using a custom profile when I initially discovered the issue). The images appear to "re-merge" back into the surrounding other flowing background images. They appear seamless, side-by-side again amongst each other.


The colors of only SOME ramdom jpegs were off (when not using the iMac Color Profile) from other surrounding ones (again, ones which had been saved with the exact same color profile).


BUT HERE'S A FUNNY THING: After verifying the color correction between various jpegs in setting the calibration (back) to the iMac calibration, when I returned to check out my other various sets of calibrations, the two jpegs which had previously been "off" (darker), they were now color matching the other surrounding background images.


However, I had one small Adobe Flash image in the midst of these (which used to appear seamless in its color with the rest--when viewed in Safari 5.1.7)--it is now the only image which is no longer color matched to the rest of the page background as it used to be (unless when viewed in the iMac Color Profile, which sets it "straight" again).


Now why was I having trouble for the last three hours with all other color profiles, until I switched profiles to the iMac profile and then back again to the others?


There must be some other color profile information contained in the Flash file that doesn't allow it to shift around as have the other jpeg images.


Please . . . Apple: Take care of this issue. I, along with a lot of others, have been spending long needless hours trying to figure out what's wrong with this picture.

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User profile for user: chumtarou
chumtarou Author
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Aug 23, 2012 11:05 AM in response to seasterling

That's great to hear Seasterling. Just out of curiosity, could you do a small test for me:


1. visit apple.com

2. command click the Apple logo on the site 2x to open 2 more tabs

3. then, click on each of the 3 tabs to see a comparison of color between the 3 Apple sites


What I usually find is 1 out of the 3 will have either more or less contrast.


I have now tested 10.8.1 on 2 machines and unfortunately same result as 10.8 (mba display and cinema led display connected to macpro)


The color issue also shows very briefly while opening 1password box in Safari as well.

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