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I've got the following problem:

I'm developing an website, so while I was testing around I've noticed that firefox and chromium display an css bar in different colors. When I switched between several machine I could come to the conclusion that firefox for ubuntu is the problem. On all other devices I've tested the website. It's perfectly fine.

Does someone knows why this is and came up with a solution?

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  • Could you give us an example? Perhaps a jsfiddle example that shows up the problem. I'm a webdev and I'm certain there are others here who can help but we need more to go on :)
    – Oli
    Mar 18, 2014 at 15:21
  • Thanks for your reply but it wasn't something of the css itself. It was a software problem. But thanks!
    – geynske006
    Mar 19, 2014 at 10:26

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Very strange, probably is an old Firefox bug already noted on Bugzilla's Bug 629312.
The solution might be to set the Firefox gfx.color_management.mode option in about:config to 0.
This may solve the problem in your computer but not - obviously - in other machines: to mitigate the problem on remote machines use Web Safest Colors or Web Safe Colors.
For the images, you can use GIMP to change the colour's hue; there is also a web safe image mode in Image -> Mode -> Indexed... that may solve the problem for some images (it's ugly but works).
Please note that using only those safe colors will enhance the accesibility of your website, it's always a good practice; you'll need an extra bit of patience, the world is full of software bugs.

Comment under here if you need more help and don't forget to press the up arrow if I'm of any help.
Have a nice evening.

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    Thanks for your reply! gfx.color_management.mode did the job. Note: the up arrow requires 15 reputation which I haven't got yet.
    – geynske006
    Mar 19, 2014 at 10:28
  • I'm happy for you; +1 for the useful comment (you confirmed the resolution of a common problem). :-) Mar 19, 2014 at 15:20
  • I don't have enough reps for it :( I need 15.. I've only 3.. a bit weird actually... imo.
    – geynske006
    Mar 20, 2014 at 12:02
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