Weird browser colors in Ubuntu 18.04

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I have been running 18.04 for about 3 months and I started to see weird colors in the browser. Note the green/yellow/blue edge on the react symbols here

Can anyone point out a reason for why this is happening and how to solve it?

Luuk Pook · Answer

Old thread, but I've realized this is a problem with Chromium & Electron based applications picking the wrong color profile. While all solutions mentioned here solve the problem for Chrome, the solution I've found fixes it for all Chromium/Electron based applications, such as VSCode & Discord.
Go to this Google Docs document and follow the 5 steps under "Using colormgr from the command line". This fixed the issue on all Chromium-based applications.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jMokB_OBkZVELu22li8vnHxAUoL1eGnLedP-1Gttv40/edit#heading=h.z8rbug83238e

Abhay V Ashokan · Answer

Step 1: Goto chrome://flags/ 
Step 2: Change Forced Colors settings to enabled. 
Solved!

Pavel Shkleinik · Answer

In my case navigating to

chrome://flags/

and setting Force color profile flag to:

sRGB linear (HRD where available)

helped.

ccristian · Answer

After further investigating this issue I found out that the problem was with the Chrome browser.

In order to fix this you need to disable hardware acceleration.
Chrome -> Settings -> Uncheck Use hardware acceleration when avaialable.

Weird browser colors in Ubuntu 18.04

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