More commonly, people blame it on Windows, OS X, Photoshop, or a litany of apps. Funnily enough, unless they are in the know, they don't blame the browser.

It is a very common problem though, and for people generating content it makes their lives doubly tough. The average quality of your computer display is depressingly low (TN LCD panels can't reproduce a color correctly to save its lousy life), add this to outlier apps like Chrome messing up the experience for users, and you'd never know how your content is going to show up on the end user's machine.