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Color differences between Firefox/Win7 and Firefox/XP, GIMP/Win7, IE/Win7

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Maarten
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Firefox in Windows 7 shows colors significantly different from IE in Windows 7 or Firefox in XP (in my virtual machine, using the same display). IE, GIMP, ADOBE Acrobat, Picasa etc all show images exactly the same and exactly as intended. However, Firefox shows (mainly PNG) images generally in a less vibrant color. For example blue becomes greenish blue. How can I resolve this?

Firefox in Windows 7 shows colors significantly different from IE in Windows 7 or Firefox in XP (in my virtual machine, using the same display). IE, GIMP, ADOBE Acrobat, Picasa etc all show images exactly the same and exactly as intended. However, Firefox shows (mainly PNG) images generally in a less vibrant color. For example blue becomes greenish blue. How can I resolve this?

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cor-el
cor-el
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This can be caused by a problem with the color profile for your display monitor or color profiles embedded in images.
You can disable color management to test that.
You can set the pref gfx.color_management.mode to 0 on the about:config page to disable Color Management.

You need to close and restart Firefox or maybe even reboot the computer to make the change effective.

See http://kb.mozillazine.org/gfx.color_management.mode

See https://developer.mozilla.org/En/ICC_color_correction_in_Firefox

Caveats: The new QCMS color management system introduced in Firefox 3.5 currently only supports ICC version 2 color profiles, not version 4.