Image Color management in Firefox 4 is off

I recently upgraded to FF4. Prior to that I had excellent color agreement in the 3 browsers I use to check the websites I design. Now the color in FF4 is way, WAY, OFF.
I use srgb tagged images and a calibrated monitor and the colors are correct in Chrome, IE8 AND in FF 3.63 but NOT in FF 4. I just spent about an hour trying to figure out why an image on a website I designed no longer matched its background when neither the image, the background nor anything else about the page had changed in a month. Turns out the only thing that changed was the browser! This is NOT GOOD.

You can set the pref gfx.color_management.mode to 0 on the about:config page to disable Color Management in Firefox. You need to close and restart Firefox to make the change effective.<br />
See:
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/gfx.color_management.mode
See:
* https://developer.mozilla.org/En/ICC_color_correction_in_Firefox
Caveats: The new QCMS color management system introduced in Firefox 3.5 currently only supports ICC version 2 color profiles, not version 4.
Test page: http://www.color.org/version4html.xalter - Is your system ICC Version 4 ready?

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