Firefox, Coloring, and Caching - monday 2004-12-20 1811 last modified 2004-12-20 1811
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Maybe this is just a Mac thing, but I notice when I explicitly set a hex value for a color in Photoshop and export a PNG, the colors are wrong in Firefox. If I set the image against a background with the same hex value, the image and background don't match up, the image being too light. They do, however, match in Safari. I don't think this was a problem before Firefox 1.0 came out. I haven't checked on Google much about this, but it seems like the wrong thing to do.

I want to reset a favicon in Firefox on a domain I manage - a bad Apache config ended up grabbing another site's favicon as a representation, but fixing Apache didn't prevent persisting the mistake - yet Firefox constantly won't give a 404 on the favicon file that truly isn't there. Instead, it offers me a Windows Icon download, presumably from its cache of icons. How do I get rid of it, short of actually designing a new favicon and changing the HTML to point to it?

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Firefox and PNG

I did some research on why my PNGs won't match background colors in Firefox and found some fun information on how the PNG spec includes folderol on gamma correction and why it should be considered folderol in The Sad State of PNG Gamma Correction. It'...

Ryan's Journal on December 21, 2004 02:17 AM [trackback]