The topic sentence says it all: I want to have a picture instead of one of the icons supplied in “edit profile”; I do not see how to do this.

There is currently no official way to do that, however there’s a trick to replace the image that is shown in the top right corner. Click on the avatar in the top right corner and then click on the name to open the avatar selection, select any avatar you want. Now that avatar should appear in %LO…

What is the Mac equivalent directory?

The path’s a little different in MacOS: /Users/YourUserName/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Avatars There may be an extra layer in mine since I have main, Beta, and Dev all installed and they each have a folder in BraveSoftware folder. ¡Suerte! Update: Looks like you have…

That worked!!! Thank you for both the Mac and the PC equivalents! (I run in both environments).

I just tried it in Windows 10 Brave 0.61.51 Chromium: 73.0.3683.75 (Official Build) (64-bit), making sure the image was relatively square in the default PNG viewer. So, I’m guessing it’s something with the file name and/or format. If you look at the file properties, clicking on Details tab, does it…

@MVC Any luck with the custom image thing?

Details of the PNG file: [image] [image] NOW IT IS WORKING, THANKS EVERYONE. [image] [image] SOLUTION: I changed the file type from .jpeg or .jpg TO .png using the edit file name option (right click and change ‘file name’) in windows explorer. This is not a real file converter. I just use…

This seems like a convoluted way to change the avatar, why not have a Gravatar option? Or just an upload option? (I know I’m simplifying this but can it be that hard?)

Linux location: /home/<USER>/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Avatars/

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

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MVC March 16, 2019, 1:21pm 6

I get a red image. It is not working. I already made a post about this but it still doesn’t work after using these instructions.
Any tips or can someone tell what I did wrong…
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