The top is Safari, the bottom is Edge. I just happened upon this because Safari youtube 4k was lagging like crazy so decided to see if the same happened on edge and it didn't stutter once. But I then noticed how much dimmer the video was as well as the colors not looking as vibrant. Both videos are in 4K HDR though. I've restarted both browsers and disabled the extensions I had on just in case, didn't seem to change anything except for how safari looked brightness-wise. Brightness is maxed on both videos. Have I missed some other setting somewhere? Or is edge just not doing HDR right currently?
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Edge YouTube Is Dimmer/Washed Out Than Safari
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It looks like Mac os is reading the values of the HDR as SDR in edge. Its what happens when you dont compensate for HDR on an SDR screen. but it's odd because in my testing using that exact video, edge was properly showing in HDR. But your screenshot imply your screen is not an HDR screen and the top one is safari Compensating and the bottom one is not. But here is a screenshot that i took that os over blown cause the screenshot is not compensating, but looks fine in safari. which MacBook pro do you have?
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I’m using the 2021 16” Max. I tested on just regular 4k as well without HDR. Edge was still dimmed than in safari. Not sure what else could be the issue then. I restarted, disabled extensions, and messed with the display settings.
My edge settings are synced across devices. I've switched back on hardware acceleration in edge and now edge is as bright and HDR colored as safari and doesn't lag on 4K so far. It was off because it was causing issues a while ago for me. I guess it needs to be switched on on the mac for HDR to work right.
