I use lots of profiles every day and I need to be able to switch between them quickly. I use the profile picture to identify the profile I want so it would make Brave usable for me if I could choose my own. As it stands, I will be sticking to Chrome or the new Edge which both allow me to choose my own icon. Other than that, Brave works great and I want to support it.
Hi @Bubble, Welcome to Community!
If you go to brave://settings/manageProfile you can change the profile name and icon. Unfortunately at the moment you can not add custom photos - it is a good feature requests.
I’m really hoping Brave steps up and makes this possible too, but seeing as no Chromium-based browser has this feature (“custom icons” in Chrome are really account avatars that appear only when logged into your Google account), after all this time I can only assume it’s harder than it seems.
I too switch between 3 profiles. These icons are just too generic for a usable workflow. I would love to use Brave completely. It seems silly the only reason I can’t commit 100% is an avatar, but once you spend years crafting your workflow, it’s hard to give it up.
thank you for the screenshots @lentx ! it looks like the profile icons are at least now pinned app bar. although custom icons would be preferable, now that the icons are pinned I think I am able to get by for now!
just noting several more questions posted on this same topic:
That’s what I do too — use themes to make it clear which user I’m in.
But custom avatars would still be best for the list.
OR AT THE VERY LEAST ALPHA-NUMERIC AVATARS. The abstract ones are pretty useless.
Until customizations is possible, why not A-Z and 0-9 avatars in various, and punctuation avatars while we’re at it? In fact, I doubt I’d even care about customization if I could choose from letters, numbers, and punctuation avatars.
is there some kind of legitimate reason anyone can think of why this has been an issue for literally years? one of the most simple and basic features that many people ask for, STILL isnt implemented?
I mean… even this community site has upload and gravatar options… sigh
despite how many people say they like it and post in these threads, votes are only 2… 3, since I voted too. People might be missing the vote button, I didn’t understand it was there at first.