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Why does this PNG file look different depending on the browser? [closed]

If you take screen shot this web page in different browser, you'd see that it displays slightly different in firefox. (7.01, ubuntu)

At first I thought it was because of color profile, but even if I turned on color management in firefox, the problem is still there.

Although it's not a very noticeable problem, I got a perfectionist boss who asked to make it look exactly the same in every browser. Does any one know what might have caused the problem? Thanks!

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A screenshot of comparison : You might still not be able to see the difference, but if you download the screen shot and use an image editor to check the color in 2 browsers, you'd see there's indeed differences.

Screenshot of the colour difference

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ablmf Avatar asked Nov 21 '11 01:11

ablmf


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1 Answers

Apparently this does have to do with color management but I'm not sure what needs to be turned on where. Here is one of a few articles I found that goes into this that I hope is helpful.

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Rob Avatar answered Sep 19 '22 08:09

Rob