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This PNG shows a different version when loaded in Chrome than in Safari


Opening this PNG in Chrome shows a different image than in Safari or any desktop app Check this beautiful painting, Pleading, an artwork by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema: If you are using Firefox or a Chromium browser (for me Google Chrome 143.0.7499.170), it's very likely that you are seeing a very foggy version of the painting, however, if you download the image and open it with your default image viewer (or open it in the Safari browser), you will see the image normally. My website contains some of these artworks, you're probably looking at one now on the right side of the page if you are reading from a desktop browser, I sent one of the pages to my friend and he told me that the image looks foggy, and I spent hours debugging a nasty edge case in how browsers handle PNG color profiles.

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