Description of the issue: I am trying to pin my second brave profile to taskbar. Every time I open the profile and right click and choose pin it pins the main brave app, not the specific profile. If i close an reopen i have to deal with the “Who’s using Brave?” screen.
How can this issue be reproduced?
Open specific profile in Brave
Right click on icon in task bar and choose pin to taskbar
Close the window
Click on the newly pinned icon in taskbar
‘Who’s using Brave?” screen appears
Expected result: Instead of “Who’s using Brave?” the specific profile window should open/
So the original reply was correct in that it shows for you to choose the profile due to the prompt about Show on startup.
But I retested and was wrong about it honoring the profile pinned, as it will always just straight up open based on what you last used, if you use the original profile.
@mrturrtle please test what you see in my reply to this where I tagged Mattches. I think the issue is going to be the box like I said in my first reply to you. But then the other might just be that in the current setup, the “default” or “profile 1” thing is just always going to open to whatever profile was last used. But all the other profiles seem to open to the profile that’s actually pinned to the taskbar. (And I’m still experimenting here, about to check if it does it on Nightly and all as well)
@Mattches hoping you can test. So I can pin profiles and it will save them, such as screenshot:
However, the issue I’m having is the default profile will remove its profile icon/affiliation once I close the browser.
And when it does that, it only opens whichever profile was open last. So it unless the default profile was the last used, it would open to the other profiles.
If I create any additional profiles and then pin them, they will easily switch and they properly pin.
This is leading me to think that people who want to ensure it opens in certain profiles can’t use the “default.”
But on Chrome, I don’t see this issue.
Edit
Tested on Nightly and it works the same. Person 1, Profile 1, or whatever you want to call it doesn’t seem to be able to be seen as its own unique profile in terms of the pinned browser icon.
But all other profiles are being recognized. So not sure what’s “broken” on that?
I think the situation I find myself in is kinda unique. My default profile works as intended (i.e I pinned it to taskbar and it opens directly) the problem I am having is with the second profile which reverts back to the default brave icon.
Not sure if THIS is going to help really either but to make picking your profile easier you can find it at the link below, just for future reference (maybe in case it doesn’t pop up or anything)
brave://profile-picker/
You might also consider editing the Title of your Topic (by clicking the little pencil icon at the bottom of your original post) for others who might run into this issue in the future as well.
(“individual” not to be a spell check… you know what)
Good reporting here everyone. Not sure why this is happening exactly and it’s even more strange that @Saoiray is seeing this occur with his default profile and then @mrturrtle is seeing the issue with the second pinned profile.
If it doesn’t repro in Chrome then def. something weird going on. Let me try to test and see what the expected behavior should be here.
Just to add to this. Pinning the default profile for me sets the target in the pinned shortcut to just the exe at “C:\Program Files\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\Application\brave.exe”.
No profile directory. Probably as Brave knows the default profile location so doesn’t need to point to it. However this obviously fails when looking to load that specific profile. This is where Brave loads the last used profile.
If you manually add the default profile directory to end of the pinned shortcut
I have a feeling that despite what you’ve named the profiles in profile management its pinning profile 1 and reverting the default profile to brave.exe as others have also confirmed.
The name of the profile in Brave can be anything but the folder names are always the same. Default, Guest Profile, Profile 1, Profile 2, Profile 3 and so on.
As a workaround you could just pin brave to the taskbar or edit an existing pinned shortcut. Right click it, right click brave, then properties and paste whichever profile directory as an argument in the target like this.
not to be a spell check… you know what)