PERSON 1 - how to change

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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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