Fix Weird Color Related Problems on Websites in Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge

If you are using Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge web browsers and facing weird color related problems and issues on websites and browser UI, this article will help you in fixing the issue.

Sometimes you may face color issues on several websites such as colors are either too bright or too dull. Sometimes you may notice that the colors look washed out specially in images.

You may also notice color issues in browser UI itself such as toolbar, menus color may look of very low resolution.

It might be happen due to the color profile being used by the web browser. If you are also facing such kind of issues in your web browser, you can force the browser to use a specific color profile and it’ll fix the issue.

Following screenshot shows washed out color problem in Google Chrome web browser:

And here is the original image color showing after fixing the color issue in Google Chrome:

We can force correct color profile in Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge with the help of following steps:

1. Right-click on Google Chrome’s or Microsoft Edge’s shortcut (present on desktop, Start Menu, Taskbar, etc) and select Properties.

2. Now add following text at the end of the string present in Target text box:

Remember there must be a blank space between existing text string and the appended string.

3. Click on Apply button and now try to launch the browser using the shortcut.

You’ll notice the color issue has been fixed in websites and browser UI.

BONUS TIP: If you don’t want to modify browser shortcut, you can use following commands in RUN dialog box (WIN+R) to directly launch browsers with forced color profile:

It’ll launch Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge browsers with forced color profile whenever you execute this command.

PS: In future, if you want to restore default settings and want to allow browser to use default color profile, remove the –force-color-profile=srgb parameter from Chrome’s and Edge’s shortcut properties.

NOTE: If the above mentioned method doesn’t help much, try to disable Hardware Acceleration feature using following tutorial:

[Tip] Having Problems with Your Web Browser? Disable Hardware Acceleration Feature