Restarted Chrome and the old profile avatar in upper left corner was gone.
With constant use of multiple profiles for various testing etc. I have grown custom to quickly recognize which profile I am on by looking at upper left corner. It is also a quick way to bring various opened profiles to front (as all icons on alt+tab etc. are equal).
The new version: "name" in upper right corner with a multilayer navigation and a lot of extra information. Sure good for some, but not for me.
How to revert?
To find version go to chrome://chrome in Google-Chrome, or say:
$ google-chrome --version At least for now, go to:
chrome://flags/#enable-new-avatar-menu Select Disabled and restart browser.
As for version 44 to 46.0.?* the above tweak does not work. But
add --disable-new-avatar-menu to startup:
$ google-chrome --disable-new-avatar-menu As of now they have removed this option as well. If one use the --disable-new-avatar-menu option the profile-icon/avatar is present, but the drop down menu is gone. As a quirk the profile-selection page (where one can launch another profile):
chrome://user-manager/ is disabled as well.
Yes. One can right-click the profile-name to get a quick switch to other profile, but avatar is gone. Have to see it there is a way to hack it.