Exported document looks washed out in firefox but ok in chrome and IE

Hi there. I'm pretty new with indesign so I'm having a little trouble with the exported pdf. I hope you can help.
I'm doing the layout of a newsletter, which will be uploaded for web viewing. After I exported, it looks the way I intended. But when I uploaded it, the Firefox viewer makes it look like it went through an overused hipster filter. I checked in Chrome and IE and it looks the same as the exported document.
Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/yRgsTE5.jpg
Does anyone know how to fix this issue?
I really hope you can help. Thanks.

There's probably nothing you can do. There is no color management on the web. And there are a number of different PDF readers which "do their own thing" when it comes to how they display PDF files.
The only way you could guarantee similar preview would be if you had your readers view the PDF in Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat which do have color management controls.

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