Strange colors in Image viewer and firefox

Question

I've recently stumbled upon incredibly irritating issue with color display in firefox and image viewer. Some colors are just off, like red instead of blue etc.

This problem doesn't exist in Chromium, or most other apps I've been using.

What is the cause and how to fix it?

--Ubuntu 13.04 64x

This could be a driver issue. What drivers are you using (nvidia/ati/...)? — Joren, Jul 22 '13 at 15:28

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 12 '17 at 19:17

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It may be a color profile issue.

Go to System settings > Color

You will see your device. Click on your device and click the button Add profile.

In the menu that comes up select default color profile and restart your application.

edited Nov 12 '17 at 19:17

Zanna

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answered Nov 26 '13 at 21:32

Akın Yılmaz

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 11 '17 at 05:42

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Run this command in the terminal

xprop -root -remove _ICC_PROFILE

answered Nov 11 '17 at 05:42

Andrey Izman

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Why does this work? – starbeamrainbowlabs Jul 11 '18 at 11:32
@starbeamrainbowlabs it removes default color profile which works wrong – Andrey Izman Jul 13 '18 at 05:21
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Erm right. I could guess that this removes the default profile, but why does the default profile need removing in the first place? – starbeamrainbowlabs Jul 13 '18 at 17:07
@starbeamrainbowlabs ubuntu creates this default profile each time after system boot and it does not work as expected, even if you will set another color profile per default, it's a bug and there are many open issues for this bug. There is no other solution – Andrey Izman Jul 14 '18 at 16:39
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Likely this bug. – Skippy le Grand Gourou Aug 10 '19 at 19:15

score -3 · Answer 3 · edited Nov 12 '17 at 19:18

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Try going to Add-ons in firefox and disable them and then reactivate. For me it worked.

edited Nov 12 '17 at 19:18

Zanna

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answered Jul 22 '13 at 15:25

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Strange colors in Image viewer and firefox

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