Microsoft Edge browser

[davidedric]

Hi,

Having just upgraded to Win 10, I know have Microsoft's new browser "Edge". It seems reasonable enough - does anyone know anything about its colour management, or not?

Ta, Dave

[Manfred M]

You mean Microsoft's advertising data collection and targeted delivery tool known as "Edge".

It was one of the first things I "killed" when I tried Windows 10. So far as I understand, Firefox is still the best colour managed browser.

[Donald]

Yes, I also blitzed it when I downloaded 10.

[James G]

I too switched off Edge and continued with Firefox....

I also dumped Cortana.... I do not need to talk to a computer... I find it hard enough to talk to myself in a meaningful way

[xpatUSA]

You mean Microsoft's advertising data collection and targeted delivery tool known as "Edge".

It was one of the first things I "killed" when I tried Windows 10. So far as I understand, Firefox is still the best colour managed browser.

Nicely put, Manfred. I'm glad to have ignored 10

I will stick with 7 until it goes the way of XP.

They don't change do they? Anyone remember Netscape?



"Resistance is futile . . . we will Assimilate "

More pics here . . .

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[marlunn]

Anyone remember Netscape?

Indeed my first browser may have been with Win3.1, was sad to see it go. Firefox was the only option worth having after that.

[marlunn]

even before the 'N' logo, when it was a ship in the stars - Netscape the father of Firefox

[george013]

And who remembers Altavista?
Browsers and search engines.............

George

[marlunn]

Yup - child of DEC - Digital Equipment Corporation - worked for them and still have the teeshirt !

[xpatUSA]

Yup - child of DEC - Digital Equipment Corporation - worked for them and still have the teeshirt !

Eek! I used to buy LSI-1123s for an early digital gas turbine control system . . . (Lincoln, UK) . . . small world.

[Steaphany]

Yup - child of DEC - Digital Equipment Corporation - worked for them and still have the teeshirt !

You have a DEC T-Shirt ?

I have that beat with VAX 9000 coffee mug...

and in my storage room, I have a microVAX II in the BA23, a VAXstation 3100, and even a couple PRO-350's based on the PDP11/23 that ran a variant of RSX. I also have a fair collection of Sun Microsystem antiques too.

[Saorsa]

You have a DEC T-Shirt ?

I have that beat with VAX 9000 coffee mug...

and in my storage room, I have a microVAX II in the BA23, a VAXstation 3100, and even a couple PRO-350's based on the PDP11/23 that ran a variant of RSX. I also have a fair collection of Sun Microsystem antiques too.

Somewhere deep in the bowels of my closet is a Captain Zilog T-Shirt. I don't have one for the IBM 650.

[davidedric]

Best I can offer is a paper tape used to drive a PDP8, which in turn drove a four circle goniometer inside a nuclear reactor shell. You set up the experiment inside the shell, then got out pretty quick and had to drive it blind from the lab.

Dave

[Simon Garrett]

Hi,

Having just upgraded to Win 10, I know have Microsoft's new browser "Edge". It seems reasonable enough - does anyone know anything about its colour management, or not?

Ta, Dave

Back to topic: the answer is no.

I've just checked, and it does not appear to be colour managed (neither is IE). It does not appear to use embedded image profiles.

[Mike Buckley]

I've just checked, and it does not appear to be colour managed (neither is IE).

I have read that the latest version of IE is indeed color-managed. However, I don't know how well the color management is implemented.

[Simon Garrett]

I have read that the latest version of IE is indeed color-managed. However, I don't know how well the color management is implemented.

IE used to be sort of half colour managed. It used image profiles, but not monitor profiles, always using sRGB as the output profile. Sort of very vaguely roughly OK for standard gamut monitors, but completely useless for wide-gamut monitors.

(However, I've just checked using IE11 on Windows 10, and it doesn't appear to be colour managed at all (like Edge). IE isn't using either image profiles or monitor profiles. I can't find any setting to turn colour management on or off. Colour management is working fine in Firefox.)

PS - forget the above paragraph, I wasn't testing correctly.

An update: IE11 on Windows 10 does use embedded image profiles. Edge is similar, but seemed to ignore some image profiles. So far as I can see, neither uses monitor profiles.

Don't be fooled by sites like http://www.color.org/version4html.xalter. They show whether the browser is using embedded image profiles, but not whether it is using monitor profiles.


Realistically, Firefox is still the only browser that works well with wide-gamut monitors. Although Safari (and possibly Chrome) are colour-managed, Firefox is the only one that will colour-manage graphic elements that don't contain profiles (i.e. most web content).

That's still correct!


(Edited after further tests.)

[joebranko]

I never use it.

[davidedric]

Well, that wraps it up for Edge.

Thank you everyone.

Dave

[Mike Buckley]

Very helpful, Simon! I don't look for the information you found, so your update is very informative.

[Bobobird]

There is more than just Cortana or Edge that you have to know about. The total system is one big interconnected piece of spyware/virus. The number of things one has to cripple grows by the day. Stay away if you value your privacy.