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-Not all monitors are created equal.  CRT monitors, LCDs, halogen-backed laptop displays and even paper all have differences in how they display colors.  Many image formats [ which formats? : png and jpeg ] contain support for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_profile|ICC profiles] which accurately describe how the color in an image should be transformed into another color space for accurate display on various output devices.
+Not all monitors are created equal.  CRT monitors, LCDs, halogen-backed laptop displays and even paper all have differences in how they display colors.  Images formatted as PNG or JPEG contain support for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_profile|ICC profiles] which accurately describe how the color in an image should be transformed into another color space for accurate display on various output devices.
 Firefox 3.5 will, by default, use color profiles if they are included in images on a page to transform from the image's original color space into the output device's color space.  (A so-called "tagged" image.)  This support was also available in Firefox 3, but we've made the color correction process about 5x faster in Firefox 3.5 so we were able to enable it without the associated performance penalties.