Safari 6 color shift issue

Same exact problem here! It's really anoying. And now Safari do not visualize the ulr in the Url area...

Yep, I noticed this day one with Safari 6 on both my early 2009 iMac and my 2011 iMac. Drives me crazy. I hope they recognize the issue and fgix the bug soon.

It isn't just Safari. I am getting it in Illustrator now too:

I also get major color variations when I have more than one project window open, and I cycle through the windows.

Ouch, Apple. Ouch.

Here are two looks at a page I created. Top is original view. Bottom is after a simple refresh. Looks fine in Firefox and Chrome.

BTW - This view is in Safari 6.0.2. Sorry. The problem I'm experiencing has nothing to do with monitor calibration. It is all isolated down to Safari. Background colors and link colors are identical color values. Safari sometimes gives me a third variation in addition to the above two.

It seems like I have the same problem using OS X 10.8.2

Have a look at this screencast i made:

http://cl.ly/2L0D3j2a3V11

The same webpage, opened in two tabs in Safari 6.0.2 (8536.26.17). The left one (opened first) shows the issue, the right one (opened second while the first tab is still opened) displays the website correctly. Switching back to the left tab the issue is still present. After selecting all content (command + A) in tab one and subsequently de-selecting it, the colourshift is gone – sorry, no video about that.

It doesn’t seem to be to be a Safari-problem. I have similar problems using Creative Suite 3:

http://cl.ly/image/3T373M382J2h

Is Apple informed about that?

Just wanted to throw in my 2¢ as well. As a web developer this is a huge pain in the butt, always having to check and re-check my graphics.

I whipped up a sample page that very clearly demonstrates the bug affects all colors and various image formats:

http://33p.org/safaribug/

Visit that page with Safari 6+ and you should see the problem easily. View it in any other browser to see it as it should be. (I put sample images on there too).

Really hope Apple acknowledges and/or fixes this problem soon 😟

edit: also wanted to mention I experience the bug on different displays (a Samsung monitor and my Macbook's built-in screen), both screens calibrated with a Spyder Express & also tested with the default OSX 'Color LCD' profile and Adobe RGB 1998 on the Sammy. It's definitely not a color calibration issue.

Message was edited by: jreid

Thanks for making that page! THe square images belnd into the backgrounds fine for me on my mbp (safari 6.0.2 (8536.26.17)), but I'll try it on the desktop when I get home tonight.

oops. On second look, I DO see squares in the green and blue strips (mbp). Grayscale, red, yellow and cyan are ok.

@jreid -- THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! This has not been fun at all for me. This is affecting all of the websites that I've created for my clients--where I've inserted pieces of images as links and/or rollover link images. The inserted "puzzle piece" images which serve as links (as you can clearly imagine) are totally "set off" in another color scheme--seemingly deeper in tone and off a bit on the color spectrum from the very exact original file of their background from which both images (background and inserted "puzzle piece") have been derived, with the exact same color profile.

This phenomenon appears for me just as you've explained it (to confirm your findings) and as well, the color matchup looks perfect in Dreamweaver where I'm assembling the images and links--there is no distinguishing demarcation between the inserted link images and their "parent" surrounding image(s).

I've submitted my own feedback to Apple as you suggested, with reference to your post of February 21, 2013 here, and your wonderful work in portraying the color issue which you've linked us to at:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/safari.html

I would think that the more people who submit Bug Issues about this can only help in getting Apple's attention and their efforts at correcting the issue.

Again, thank you so very much jreid!

Exact the same problem here!

I noticed this on Safari 6.0.2 (OS X 10.8.2) on both my MacBook Pro (17-inch, Late 2007, 2.4GHz) and my iMac (27-inch, Mid 2010).

Also I noticed the color issue on PDF-Documents in Adobe Acrobat Pro X/XI, in Mac OS Preview same Documents are OK.

Here is a german article on this issue:

http://www.hilfdirselbst.ch/foren/OS_X_10_8___Mountain_Lion_-_CM_P503033.html#50 3033

Apple, LOOK at this and solve it!

Just wanted to throw my voice in that I'm also having this issue. Had a few headaches with my web developer and him not seeing what im talking about. after some research, found this thread and it seems to definitely be this issue. The colors just react very weird. Refresh sometimes fixes it.

I'd been having this same issue and have left comments in another thread re: this also. I believe one of the latest OS updates has corrected the issue with Safari. I'm now running Safari 6.0.5, and Mac OS 10.8.4.

I'd had different saved parts of one single photo image, created in Photoshop, all sharing the exact same color profile (which was one of the troubleshooting suggestions to check on in the other thread here)--inserted into a web page (actually a few similar occurances of this) where randomly, one or two of the images would appear darker or slightly off in color calibration from what I had on my end (locally on my computer, in Photoshop and in Dreamweaver).

I've never seen or heard an acknowledgement from Apple, but one day it went away--and I suspected it was due to one of the updates. If you're running Safari 6.0.2 and OS 10.8.2, I'd suggest updating those and see what you see. Likely you'd want to clear your cache as well before rechecking the same images.

Hope that helps.

Hey,

No, I'm with Safari 6.0.5 and Mac OSX 10.8.4