Fritzing breadboard power rail colors don't reflect real life

[vanepp]

In this case it is likely misalignment in the breadboard svg or that you need to move the part slightly to align to the grid.

this post from just now is likely what you are thinking of, it discusses this same issue on a new part.

VTL 5C1 or the like vactrol

This is a Fritzing quirk (which I think is a bug, but the developers so far don’t agree), what is happening is Fritizng selects a pin (apparently at random) to align to the grid. Here on the full+ breadboard the power rail pins are aligned with the grid pins and all is well. [capture] here on a [capture1] half+ breadboard (where the power rails are offset 0.05in in x from the main pins) it will at random select to align to the power rails producing a 0.05in offset in grid alignment. It doe…

Peter