@schilpat
Thanks for your replies.
I changed the Firefox mysterious "gfx.color_management.mode" from 2 back to 1 (which is the default), and the checkerboard has now disappeared.
Sadly, color management now doesn't work correctly in the browser, which it appeared to do on setting '2'.
So I suppose this is a solution for viewing Windy, but it would be nice if it also worked with the "gfx.color_management.mode" set to 2.
Edit: Somehow this "gfx.color_management.mode" setting appears to be back at '2', and the checkerboard has not returned, so it's possible some legacy setting was messing things up.
As an aside, there is a lot of info about Firefox color management online, and while it's possible to make it behave differently, it never seems to work correctly.
