Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Revert to the Old Avatar Switching in Chrome

With the latest version of the Chrome browser, Google made a change that is an annoyance. When you look at the upper right corner of the browser, you will see a button that is the name of your current Chrome user profile. It is there even if Chrome only has one profile. For people like me who use multiple user profiles, it is even more annoying having to do 3 clicks now to switch between profiles. The old way of doing the switch is simple: Click on the avatar, a dropdown menu shows up with all the profiles visible. Then it's a simple matter of clicking on the profile you like to use. That's it.

Now with the latest change, this process requires 3 clicks which is not that bad in itself, but if you switch profiles a lot, this becomes a big annoyance because it is not necessary to require 3 clicks to get the job done. Luckily, you can go to the location bar in Chrome, type in chrome://flags

Then do a text search for any appearance of "avatar". Go to this entry and make this setting Disabled. The user switching process is reverted to the old way.


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