Profile Badge & Menu Missing

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HI Guys
I am struggling to find how to add a new profile.
I have no profile badge and no access via normal settings!
I can see my own profile using flags brave://settings/manageProfile
But this only shows my current one and no option to add one!
Why is my badge and menu not allowing me to view or add profiles
I have tried creating a shortcut but it does nothing the guest works but opens a incognito window not hat i want.

Version 1.78.72 Chromium: 135.0.7049.41 (Official Build) beta (64-bit)
Arch Linux Chadwn

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@osopolar

Please edit your Original Post (“OP”) above, in order to include:

  • Brave Browser version numbers
  • Operating System version numbers

Create a fresh browser profile (Menu --> More tools --> Add profile)

To manage, use a Brave Browser New Window, and go to:

  • brave://settings/manageProfile

Switching Brave Browser Profiles

How can I switch from Profile to other Profile?

Windows OS and Linux OS users:

  • Control + Shift + m

MacOS users:

  • Command + Shift + m

What keyboard shortcuts can I use in Brave?

https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360032272171-What-keyboard-shortcuts-can-I-use-in-Brave

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Cheers for the reply i notice when i press * Control + Shift + m my profile picture pop up shows but after selecting a profile it goes !

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We can use the keyboard shortcut Control + Shift + m to get and choose the profile but, the profile icon in the top bar does not stay permanently as earlier. This is observed only after the latest upgrade of brave-browser in Ubuntu 24.04. The version having this issue is →
Version 1.77.95 Chromium: 135.0.7049.52 (Official Build) (64-bit)
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This is not a solution but, a work around to choose the profile. The actual issue is, the “profile” icon is missing in the top-bar. We earlier used to click this profile icon to select another profile that was configured. Now we are left with only the keyboard shortcut.

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@Mattches

The issue is expressed well by new forum member @ravihara at the preceding post:

Profile Badge & Menu Missing - #5 by ravihara

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To clarify here, for the people encountering this, do you already have additional profiles created? Or do you only have one profile?

Additionally, what happens if you use the main menu to add a new profile (which also displays the profile menu in general)? Main menu --> More tools --> Add profile:

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New user here, so I noticed the issue when creating a new profile. Adding profiles works fine, but here’s what the top right of the window looks like:

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The avatar icon is missing and clicking where it’s supposed to be does nothing. However the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-Shift-M properly opens the avatar menu (and shows the avatar icon):

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While the profile “card” is opened, clicking the avatar icon works: it hides the the menu… as well as the icon, so back to square one.

This happens regardless of the profile used.

OS: Manjaro Linux x86-64 / Brave Version 1.77.95 Chromium: 135.0.7049.52 (Official Build) (64-bit)

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Thank you all for the information. Can anyone here still encountering this issue please confirm whether or not they’re using the Snap or Flatpak version (as opposed to using the curl in Terminal to install as per our Linux install page)?

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I used the curl installation method.

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@yol do you have any custom OS/browser themes that you’re using at this time?

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Not that I know of, but I did import my chrome settings. I can try resetting everything. I’ll keep you posted.

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I just tried again after removing ~/.config/BraveSoftware and ~/.cache/BraveSoftware and importing no settings. Still no avatar icon (with more than 1 profile). My OS theme is just the standard dark theme from Manjaro, but I noticed other people affected are using different distros (Fedora and Ubuntu). Oh, it’s Gnome desktop, just in case.