Is it possible to have a custom photo in the profile icon in the top right of Brave?

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Hi @hnktong ! I think it is exactly related to how you can’t call up the profile manager.

Relating to my original ‘want’ of trying to change the profie avatar to anything else, not necessarily custom:

  1. Yes, my avatar looks like that little grey guy. Clicking on it and then clicking on “Person 1” leads me to the Settings page, where I believe it is supposed to open the profile manager. The browser bar does flash brave://settings/manageprofile before it redirects to settings. I’m on version 0.65.121, which is just what I downloaded from the site. I don’t believe it’s a nightly or beta?

  2. There is nothing in my %LOCALAPPDATA%\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Avatars folder other than a watermelon avatar I was able to pick when I tested setting up a new Person 2. My generic Person 1 avatar isn’t ever being “selected” and thus isn’t ever being created in there, I believe.

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I’d exit Brave and try dropping an image of your choice in PNG format named Person 1.png in the Avatars folder and see what happens. Omit the space if the person 2 one does.

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That actually isn’t what I cared about doing at all originally :joy: I just wanted to access the Profile Manager.

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Oh. Well, for the record, it looks like the file would have to be named avatar_generic.png.

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(I tried it for shiggles and as a data point – that changes nothing for me.)

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The same issue on current 0.66.99 and I’m almost sure it was relevant for the previous version too. It looks like a bug, but no one has written about it here yet.

And if we talk about profile icons (again), I think the team should give us the ability to add own image and hide this button from the toolbar. I’m the only who use Brave on this PC and I don’t need it.

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