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PNG images appear desaturated.

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When I view web pages containing PNG images, the PNGs (as opposed to JPEG and GIF images) appear more desaturated than they should. This is a very recent problem, and it is unique to Firefox, as the same images look normal in other browsers.

I recently updated Firefox to version 3.6.15; however, I cannot be entirely sure whether this issue began immediately after the update, since it took me some time to notice it.

When I view web pages containing PNG images, the PNGs (as opposed to JPEG and GIF images) appear more desaturated than they should. This is a very recent problem, and it is unique to Firefox, as the same images look normal in other browsers. I recently updated Firefox to version 3.6.15; however, I cannot be entirely sure whether this issue began immediately after the update, since it took me some time to notice it.

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cor-el
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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 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.