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Why can Chrome render a PNG image, but Firefox cannot?

Why can Chrome render the following PNG image, but Firefox cannot?

https://www.paycom.com/images/favicons/favicon-32x32.png

<img src="https://www.paycom.com/images/favicons/favicon-32x32.png">

Example: https://jsfiddle.net/gu5aqzcL/

Solution

  • Strictly speaking, it's an invalid PNG file, one of the tEXt chunks has an invalid CRC (checksum). Of course, some viewers can ignore that.

    See for example http://entropymine.com/jason/tweakpng/