Colors too saturated when exporting to web

Howdy.
I'm having the hardest time getting colors to appear the same on save for web output as they do when I'm working on a document in Photoshop CS5.
Right now, everything looks great when I'm working on it in Photoshop. And it looks good in the save for web preview window. But if I drag an exported image onto Safari or Firefox the colors looks very different from what I see in Photoshop.
Any quick fixes?
Also, what are the best practice colors setting I should be using everywhere in Photoshop assuming I use Photoshop for 100% web graphics?
Thanks so much!

Lundberg02 wrote:
Why aren't you selecting your calibrated display proflle in the list for each display?
I'll tell you why, because you don't know what calibration is and have never done it.
Back when everything I did was print-related I always had all my monitors well-calibrated. Not so much so as I moved away from print. And oddly, I've never had these weird color shifts on export before (I can remember all the way back to Photoshop version 2.0 in the early 90s...). Only since I installed CS5 yesterday am I seeing these weird color shifts.
I have four displays connected to my machine, each a different model. I don't even remember setting them to wide gamut. I set them all to use their native profiles yesterday, and what a difference... for the worse in my opinion. Previously my blue desktop looked consistent across all four displays but now it looks like four different blues. And whatever document I'm working on in Photoshop looks more different depending on which diplay I drag the window to - looked much more consistent previously.
I went from CS3 to CS5. I still have CS3 installed -- and as far as I can tell I have everything set up exactly the same in both versions. CS3 was exporting/displaying as I would expect, CS5 was not (when exporting as gif).

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