diff --git a/.github/actions/spell-check/expect.txt b/.github/actions/spell-check/expect.txt
index a00bf165d1..731fa0aca8 100644
--- a/.github/actions/spell-check/expect.txt
+++ b/.github/actions/spell-check/expect.txt
@@ -616,6 +616,7 @@ Filterx
 finalizer
 findfast
 findstr
+Firefox
 FIXEDFILEINFO
 FLASHZONES
 FLASHZONESONQUICKSWITCH
@@ -886,6 +887,7 @@ ingbuffer
 inheritdoc
 INITDIALOG
 initguid
+Inkscape
 Inlines
 inorder
 INotification
diff --git a/src/modules/previewpane/SvgPreviewHandler/SvgPreviewControl.cs b/src/modules/previewpane/SvgPreviewHandler/SvgPreviewControl.cs
index ad6d262f60..5d5cefb234 100644
--- a/src/modules/previewpane/SvgPreviewHandler/SvgPreviewControl.cs
+++ b/src/modules/previewpane/SvgPreviewHandler/SvgPreviewControl.cs
@@ -102,6 +102,10 @@ namespace Microsoft.PowerToys.PreviewHandler.Svg
 
             try
             {
+                // Fixes #17527 - Inkscape v1.1 swapped order of default and svg namespaces in svg file (default first, svg after).
+                // That resulted in parser being unable to parse it correctly and instead of svg, text was previewed.
+                // MS Edge and Firefox also couldn't preview svg files with mentioned order of namespaces definitions.
+                svgData = SvgPreviewHandlerHelper.SwapNamespaces(svgData);
                 svgData = SvgPreviewHandlerHelper.AddStyleSVG(svgData);
             }
             catch (Exception ex)
diff --git a/src/modules/previewpane/common/Utilities/SvgPreviewHandlerHelper.cs b/src/modules/previewpane/common/Utilities/SvgPreviewHandlerHelper.cs
index e245a0777d..2fbc91e7a5 100644
--- a/src/modules/previewpane/common/Utilities/SvgPreviewHandlerHelper.cs
+++ b/src/modules/previewpane/common/Utilities/SvgPreviewHandlerHelper.cs
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Globalization;
 using System.Linq;
 using System.Xml.Linq;
 
@@ -154,6 +155,29 @@ namespace Common.Utilities
             return length + "px";
         }
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Swaps positions of default and svg namespace definitions if default namespace comes first in original SVG data
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="svgData">SVG data</param>
+        /// <returns>Returns modified SVG data</returns>
+        public static string SwapNamespaces(string svgData)
+        {
+            const string defaultNamespace = "xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"";
+            const string svgNamespace = "xmlns:svg=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"";
+
+            int defaultNamespaceIndex = svgData.IndexOf(defaultNamespace, StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase);
+            int svgNamespaceIndex = svgData.IndexOf(svgNamespace, StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase);
+
+            if (defaultNamespaceIndex != -1 && svgNamespaceIndex != -1 && defaultNamespaceIndex < svgNamespaceIndex)
+            {
+                svgData = svgData.Replace(defaultNamespace, "{0}", StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase);
+                svgData = svgData.Replace(svgNamespace, "{1}", StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase);
+                svgData = string.Format(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, svgData, svgNamespace, defaultNamespace);
+            }
+
+            return svgData;
+        }
+
         /// <summary>
         /// Remove a CSS unit from the end of the string
         /// </summary>