PERSON 1 - how to change

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In the upper right hand corner, the little icon of a head simply says Person 1 when I hover over it. Can that be changed and if so, how please?
Just installed this browser an hour ago and so far impressed. Went to every website I wanted with no problems and seems as fast, if not faster than my Chrome or Opera browsers.

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Sorry would get back to you

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Indeed, you cannot edit a user profile, only remove it but when you re-launch the app the “Person 1” profile re-populates.

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Fwiw – I believe we’ll be doing away or at least refactoring how the “profile” system works. Apologies for the inconvenience in the interim.

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Please keep the profile system – it is solves critical workflow on the web when I have personal and work accounts on the same site and sometimes want to be logged into both and switch back and forth. Without it, I don’t think I could keep Brave as my primary browser.

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I also have this problem. Please change!

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Same problem. It would also be good to have option to set password to person. So that all your bookmarks, history, etc. would be safe from others.

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After digging around the local installation directory of Brave Browser in Mac, this is what I found:

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FIRST:

  1. Quit your Brave Browser or your changes won’t persist

TO CHANGE THE PROFILE NAME:

  1. Replace your current profile name with your preferred one in the following files
    • /Users/__YOUR_MAC_USER_NAME__/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Default/Preferences
    • /Users/__YOUR_MAC_USER_NAME__/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Local State (remember to quit your Brave browser)
    • It’s a JSON file, and you need to look for somethng like this: name: "xxx", pretty intuitive

TO CHANGE THE PROFILE AVATAR

  1. Look for something like this: "avatar_icon":"chrome://theme/IDR_PROFILE_AVATAR_xx" in the Local State file mentioned in previous section
  2. Replace that xx with the one you like here: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/lkgr/chrome/browser/profiles/profile_avatar_icon_util.cc
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Not being able to change the Person 1 , name and avatar is very annoying.

I just changed to Brave from Chrome, and I´m loving it. It just looks like a rough edge.

I hope you can work it soon. Thank you, great browser.

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First day using Brave, I really like what I see so far. I’m a heavy user of People for managing numerous profiles, I was stoked to see support for People profiles but that elation was quickly subdued once I realised I couldn’t change the names or avatars of the People profiles(?!). I’m hopeful that you can implement this standard Chromium feature, I wont be able to use Brave without it and will continue to use Chrome for the timebeing.

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Experiencing the same need to change the person name and the avatar. Otherwise, really liking Brave!

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This is good @alankyshum. Also see this related thread, which has some additional help:

Also, if you create a new person with the profile manager with the name you want, you should be able to copy everything from the Person 1 profile folder into the new one without incident. If you have an active BAT wallet, be sure to use the backup/restore procedures outlined here:

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@Mattches I upvote keeping the profile manager or equivalent with the tweaks users have been requesting. It can be very handy. I used Firefox’s often and had FF set to launch into the profile selection window every time.

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Came here to find out how to change profile as well . . . I am more than just “Person 1”!!!

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