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Firefox makes this color ugly

The color #fcfc04 looks completely different (uglier imo) on Firefox while Chrome and Safari display it the same.

I was visiting this website when I noticed

https://www.copyipsum.com/

Why does this happen?

( 9 comments | 4 points | on HN )
Re:Firefox makes this color ugly by ladberg on Thursday August 20, 2020 @09:17PM (#24230937)
On my computer, Safari and Chrome both display in sRGB while Firefox displays in the "native" (aka wild west) RGB. You can verify this by opening up the "Digital Color Meter" app.
Re:Firefox makes this color ugly by scott31 on Friday August 21, 2020 @04:34AM (#24233146)
No, the color itself is ugly, Firefox will just show you the truth
Re:Firefox makes this color ugly by gtirloni on Thursday August 20, 2020 @08:26PM (#24230597)
It looks the same on my TN-panel monitor with Firefox 80 and Chrome 84 on Windows 10 and Linux. Could you post a screenshot?
Re:Firefox makes this color ugly by hstaab on Thursday August 20, 2020 @08:47PM (#24230724)
It’s the same for my friend and I.

https://imgur.com/gallery/iDkW4qj

Re:Firefox makes this color ugly by mceachen on Friday August 21, 2020 @12:25AM (#24231949)
On Chrome & Ubuntu 20.04, left side is #FEFA51, right side is #FEFA53

On Firefox & Ubuntu 20.04, left side is #FEFA00, right side is #FEF952

Chrome and Firefox must be rendering in different colorspaces (I'd expect one is assuming sRGB, and the other is not doing any conversion).

I can't believe it took 10 years for Chrome to fix orientation: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=56845

Re:Firefox makes this color ugly by jolmg on Thursday August 20, 2020 @10:11PM (#24231259)
I'm looking at your screenshot on both chromium and firefox, and I can't see a difference in color between the two sides of your picture. I can't see the difference when visiting the website directly either.

Checking the color code with the eyedropper of gcolor2, I see the site is #FCFC04 when checking it directly on both browsers, and in your picture, the right one is #FCFC07, while the left one is #FCFD00.

They all look the same to me though. It's not distinguishable to my eye.

Re:Firefox makes this color ugly by hstaab on Thursday August 20, 2020 @10:20PM (#24231317)
So, on both my colleagues iMac and mine, they look very very different, however viewing the Imgur on my iPhone 8, I see no difference.

Strange

Re:Firefox makes this color ugly by jolmg on Thursday August 20, 2020 @11:00PM (#24231521)
It could be the display and/or the OS.
Re:Firefox makes this color ugly by tawayfree on Sunday August 23, 2020 @06:39PM (#24255897)
Truetone?