Replying to Chrome Photo Problem

so i've been using google chrome for about 6 months or so, maybe more and i've never had a problem until last night... i was checking out my flickr stats yadda yadda and when i clicked back to my photostream almost all of my pics looked different. they were super dull looking. i went through all my shots and it seems that the photos on the last page, and part of the 11th page are fine, but from then on they all look faded. i believe all the shots that are normal were ones i took in .jpg and the ones that look faded are ones i shot in .NEF, but then converted to .jpg to upload them.

the weird thing is, i opened firefox and they look fine. all of them look like they did when i uploaded them. i did some research about this and found some info like this http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=04b35a7f083ee00e&hl=en
and this http://www.shutterphoto.net/article/google-chrome-bad-for-color-profiles/
and some others. the thing i don't understand is why did this just start happening, and how the eff do i fix it? i've tried a couple chrome extensions but i either downloaded the wrong ones or they aren't working. halp plz