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by dangrossman 5011 days ago
I've been seeing color abberations in text since my PC updated to Chrome 22. Most noticeable has been blue links showing up with a purple tint -- significantly different from the color showing in the Inspector. It's browser-wide, with extensions disabled -- I first noticed the change in link color on a Reddit comment thread, then saw it on Google Plus and my own website as well.

http://i.imgur.com/Wjay2.png

Has anyone else noticed this? I've been watching Google's "Past 24 Hours" search result and only one other person has talked about a similar problem; he's seeing the same thing but only on external monitors.

This is the first show-stopping Chrome bug for me... I can't work with a browser that won't display the colors I tell it to display when designing pages. Frustrating that I can't even get confirmation others are experiencing it.
4 comments
Mahn 5010 days ago
+1 This is probably very very subtle for most people to notice, but I'm seeing aswell and it's bugging me to no end. I'm pretty sure even the colors in the developer tools are off.

At first I thought it was just me seeing things, but surely enough a side by side comparison with firefox (15) revealed otherwise: http://i.imgur.com/N29QC.png

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ionforce 5011 days ago
Smells like subpixel aliasing?
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calvinlough 5011 days ago
I've noticed this as well, for blue links. It's really bugging me. Are you aware of a workaround?

Edit: I'm on a Mac, 10.7.5, FWIW

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dangrossman 5011 days ago
I haven't found one. I tried switching color profiles on my display, removing extensions, upgrading to Chrome Canary -- colors are still off.
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gbhn 5011 days ago
There's new ICC support in Chrome 22. Perhaps that is interacting poorly with some setting in your system?
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dangrossman 5011 days ago
I think that change is only supposed to apply to rendering of certain images, not text. Regardless, I went down that avenue as much as I could, switching color profiles (as I mentioned) in my display settings and rebooting to see if there'd be any change.

It shouldn't be the issue since ICC was already supported by other browsers, and they're not showing this new text color abnormality, just Chrome.

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ivank 5010 days ago
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=146407
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