Why is Firefox changing the color calibration of this image?

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Published on 2012-10-22T13:45:10Z Indexed on 2012/10/22 23:18 UTC
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The symptom of my problem is that the same hex color in a PNG image does not match the CSS-defined color defined by the same hex code.

This problem only happens in Firefox when gfx.color_management.mode is set to 2 (tagged images only) rather than 0 (off). (Firefox ICC color correction described here).

The image is http://dzfk93w6juz0e.cloudfront.net/images/background-top-light.png which at the bottom has the color #c8e8bd. However, the shade of green is different to that color when Firefox color calibration is enabled.

Is this image inadvertently "tagged" for color correction?

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