Washed out colors when hardware acceleration is enabled

[Elemental]

Description:
After updating Brave to version 1.83.109, colors appear washed out when hardware acceleration is enabled. This issue didn’t happen in the previous version of Brave on the same system.

Disabling hardware acceleration resolves the issue, and colors display as expected.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Launch Brave on Arch Linux (Plasma, Wayland).

2. Ensure hardware acceleration is enabled in settings.

3. Visit any website (e.g. YouTube).

4. Observe the display quality — colors appear dull or washed out.

Expected Behavior:
Colors should display accurately and vibrantly, as they did in previous versions with hardware acceleration enabled.

Actual Behavior:
Colors appear dull or washed out when hardware acceleration is turned on.

System Info:

• Brave Version: 1.83.109

• Operating System: Arch Linux

• Desktop Environment: Plasma 6.4.5 (Wayland)

• GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

• Driver: Mesa 25.2.4-arch1.1

Screenshots:

1. Hardware Acceleration ON – Brave 1.83.109

   

2. Hardware Acceleration OFF – Brave 1.83.109

   

3. Hardware Acceleration ON – Brave 1.82.172

   

Additional Information:

It may be hard to see but it is specially noticeable in black portions of the screen as black appears grey. It also affects the elements of the browser itself eg. the purple of the private tab.

[mvgom]

Exactly same behavior for me, on any chromium-based browser (Plasma 6.4, 7900 XTX amdgpu). Workaround:

–disable-features=WaylandWpColorManagerV1

[0vx]

I’m having the same exact issue. The person named “mvgom” gave something that did help, but after my own tinkering

If their argument didn’t work, try this one

–disable-features=WaylandWpColorManagerV1 --force-color-profile=sRGB

(specs: gpu model: Intel Arc A380, gpu driver: Mesa 25.2.4-cachyos1.2, plasma version: plasmashell 6.4.5, kernel: 6.17.1-2-cachyos, brave version: Brave Browser 141.1.83.112, i also use Wayland, not X11)