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Some images look grey-ish, using firefox at ubuntu 12.10

chris.asl
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Hello, I am using Firefox v23 at ubuntu 12.10 (64bit).

I tried creating a new profile, nothing. Tried unistall with sudo apt-get purge firefox which removed firefox and some other firefox-tied apps, re-installed, still nothing.

This is how a page looks in firefox: http://i.stack.imgur.com/8v2h4.png

and how it looks in chrome: http://i.stack.imgur.com/IISa4.png

Notice the image, it's a bit grey. I have also installed the Old image style extension and it simply doesn't work. What can I do?

Hello, I am using Firefox v23 at ubuntu 12.10 (64bit). I tried creating a new profile, nothing. Tried unistall with sudo apt-get purge firefox which removed firefox and some other firefox-tied apps, re-installed, still nothing. This is how a page looks in firefox: http://i.stack.imgur.com/8v2h4.png and how it looks in chrome: http://i.stack.imgur.com/IISa4.png Notice the image, it's a bit grey. I have also installed the Old image style extension and it simply doesn't work. What can I do?

Chosen solution

You can check the default text and background color.

Also make sure that you allow pages to choose their own colors.

  • Edit > Preferences > Content : Fonts & Colors > Colors : [X] "Allow pages to choose their own colors, instead of my selections above"

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You can try to disable color management to test if it is caused by a problem with color management.

You can set the gfx.color_management.mode pref to 0 on the about:config page to disable Color Management.
You need to close and restart Firefox to make the change effective.
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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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This image -- http://i.stack.imgur.com/Ou99q.png -- from this page: http://askubuntu.com/questions/204681/kompozer-not-in-the-repo?

Does it look any better if you view it directly compared with viewing it embedded in a web page? (I think the old image style extension only relates to viewing images on their own.)

cor-el
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Chosen Solution

You can check the default text and background color.

Also make sure that you allow pages to choose their own colors.

  • Edit > Preferences > Content : Fonts & Colors > Colors : [X] "Allow pages to choose their own colors, instead of my selections above"

See also:

You can try to disable color management to test if it is caused by a problem with color management.

You can set the gfx.color_management.mode pref to 0 on the about:config page to disable Color Management.
You need to close and restart Firefox to make the change effective.
See also:

chris.asl
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@jscher2000: No, it still looks the same..

@cor-el: This is already checked at the colors menu. But setting the gfx.color_management.mode pref to 0 fixed the problem! Wow! I can browse the web correctly now :) Thank you very much for that!

jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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It's interesting because I thought that setting only affected JPEG images. I didn't realize it could affect PNG images as well.