Chrome and IE8 show darker images than Firefox, Photoshop & Picture Viewer

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Can anyone else try this?

The sample image here is using sRGB (embedded) and when viewed in Firefox all the shades are visible but pay close attention to the vertical 3% bar especially.

Now view the same image side by side in Chrome & IE (I'm using v5 dev channel for Chrome) and open it in Windows Picture viewer as well.

Notice Chrome and IE both show weaker 3% grey and virtually non existent <3% blocks?

I disabled my LUT calibration to see if it's to do with my monitor being calibrated and the fact that Chrome/IE may not be colour managed but that doesn't change anything, yes the shades/colours are inaccurate disabling the LUT but the same weaker grey scale is there in IE and Chrome.

I've not tried Opera as I uninstalled it last night but I would imagine people would see the same here too.

It would appear that Firefox, Windows Picture Viewer, Photoshop etc all interpret the sRGB profile correctly whereas the other browsers do not?

Here's how it looks on mine:

Shade_example.jpg
 
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IE and Opera are the same for me:

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EDIT: IE, Opera and Picture Viewer are the same for me:

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Aye, looking at your screenshot in Firefox and Photoshop/Picture Viewer the 3% bars and below are visible without having to concentrate. Loading it in Chrome/IE and 3% and below are much darker.

So looks like Opera has the same issue too.
 
Windows Picture Viewer (the standard viewer that loads when you click a picture in Explorer) is the same as Firefox and Photoshop (ie: correct shades being shown).
 
Yeah, look at my 2nd screenshot, where I have added Windows Photo Viewer to the comparison.

All three are the same.
 
It's more tedious to show on a screenshot with these kinds of problems as the difference isn't as obvious as in person or in a photo so here's a better example, left side is screenshot, right side is photo.

sample3.jpg


Notice how Chrome and IE (top and bottom) lack detail at 3% and below compared to Chrome and Picture Viewer?
 
I can take a photo if you'd prefer, but I can assure you that IE, Opera and Windows Photo Viewer are IDENTICAL.
 
Rather bizarre but I guess not a big issue as I don't use the othe browsers as my primary.
 
Just tried IE8 and Firefox side by side and their the same.

Only differences I could see were from backlight bleed from my work monitor :(
 
Are you guys using hardware calibration at all? It's the only variable I can think of.
 
Hmm perhaps it's one of those things that will literally break your brain just trying to solve so I may just forget about it entirely :p
 
Yeah, it's not as blatantly obvious as the whole 'whites appear as yellows in picture viewer' Vista/7 bug where you have to set the default colour profile... I wouldn't worry :p
 
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