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The article is focused on video, but fwiw (at least several years ago), the browsers do bad stuff with images, too. It is (was?) impossible to get Firefox and I think also Chrome to correctly render PNG, JPEG, and other formats, especially when they provided a color profile.

At the time (again, like a decade ago) at least, it was roughly: Firefox thinks every JPEG is sRGB and every PNG is “huh?”, Chrome got JPEG right (treat as sRGB when no profile is present) but couldn’t do Adobe RGB (and wouldn’t even open a TIFF), and Safari used Apple’s long-standing color code to basically get this right (though I don’t recall if it went with “assume sRGB if no profile”).

I’d be curious to reproduce those old results, especially given the cool “oh yeah, Chrome doesn’t show the same colors in software mode” shown here!