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Google Chrome - Little Person next to Minimize button
Lottie_lowe
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Hi everyone 
I would appreciate your help,please. I wonder if you have the following displayed in your Google Chrome browser as well.
I am using windows 7(64 bit), Google Chrome up to date. I am NOT signed in to Chrome.
I've just noticed on the top right hand side when I went to close my Google Chrome browser on my laptop a strange "clickable button with a person on it" next to "Minimize ,Maximize and Close buttons" . It sits next to Minimize button to be exact but not touching it.
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When I click on that person button, it opens up a little window and it shows a silhouette of a head and says "YOU" underneath it........
.....There are also following options listed:
-"Sign in to get your tabs, bookmarks, history,and other settings on all your devices."
- "Sign in to Chrome"
-" Switch Person"
- "Go Incognito"
I've checked the "Chrome Settings" and under "People" there used to be written "You are the only user" but now it doesn't say it anymore and shows the Silhouette of the Head ONLY and next to it is written "Person 1 ( current )".
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My questions are:
How come I suddenly have this button with the person sitting next to minimize button ? The location of this button seems strange to me. Or is that normal? I am worried.
When I click on it, it says "YOU" but is it really me? (as I mentioned above I am not signed in to Chrome and haven't signed in for about a year now)
Also because there was an alteration in the "Settings" under "People" and because it no longer says that "You are the only user" anymore as it used to and now it ONLY displays the HEAD "Person 1 (current)" there. I wonder whether "Person 1 (current) is really me? Is it? There are no other users listed. I wouldn't want to remove it by mistake and delete all my Chrome data.
P.S. I am the only user on my laptop and the only user of this browser and have been using Chrome for years but never seen this thing appear before.
Looking forward to your replies.
Thank you
I would appreciate your help,please. I wonder if you have the following displayed in your Google Chrome browser as well.
I am using windows 7(64 bit), Google Chrome up to date. I am NOT signed in to Chrome.
I've just noticed on the top right hand side when I went to close my Google Chrome browser on my laptop a strange "clickable button with a person on it" next to "Minimize ,Maximize and Close buttons" . It sits next to Minimize button to be exact but not touching it.
**************************************************************************************************************
When I click on that person button, it opens up a little window and it shows a silhouette of a head and says "YOU" underneath it........
.....There are also following options listed:
-"Sign in to get your tabs, bookmarks, history,and other settings on all your devices."
- "Sign in to Chrome"
-" Switch Person"
- "Go Incognito"
I've checked the "Chrome Settings" and under "People" there used to be written "You are the only user" but now it doesn't say it anymore and shows the Silhouette of the Head ONLY and next to it is written "Person 1 ( current )".
***************************************************************************************************************
My questions are:
How come I suddenly have this button with the person sitting next to minimize button ? The location of this button seems strange to me. Or is that normal? I am worried.
When I click on it, it says "YOU" but is it really me? (as I mentioned above I am not signed in to Chrome and haven't signed in for about a year now)
Also because there was an alteration in the "Settings" under "People" and because it no longer says that "You are the only user" anymore as it used to and now it ONLY displays the HEAD "Person 1 (current)" there. I wonder whether "Person 1 (current) is really me? Is it? There are no other users listed. I wouldn't want to remove it by mistake and delete all my Chrome data.
P.S. I am the only user on my laptop and the only user of this browser and have been using Chrome for years but never seen this thing appear before.
Looking forward to your replies.
Thank you
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I'm not signed into chrome and I'm on mac OS X
Do you remember when this "Person Button" installed on your Chrome?
Thank you:)
No, sorry. I never personalise such things so I'd never really pay it attention.
I've got chrome set to auto update so it could have happened anytime.
Thank you very much for trying to help help, bspace ;-)
I'm the only user on this Laptop. In the Settings People Section both boxes were unticked. That section also seems to have appeared.
Seemed odd to me as well but I went to Google:
You can disable this, put "chrome://flags" (no quotes) in to the address bar.
Scroll two thirds down the list to "Enable new profile management system".
They changed the default, however you can disable it again.
Glad to hear this feature exists and it is nothing to worry about. I only wish I wasn't the so called specially chosen user because it made me go
Now I know the "person button" is legitimate so I can live with it and may even use this feature in the future.
I had a look in "chrome://flags" "as you kindly suggested ("Enable new profile management system" was set to "Default") ... my first time in there but probably not suited for someone like me to be changing any settings. After all their warn you there about self combustion
Thanks for your help,Helmut ;-)
Export your bookmarks so that you can easily reload them if you want to log out after logging in.
Thank you for letting me know about your experience with it ;-).
I guess I will ignore it for now too. I don't really have any need to be signed in to Chrome.
I actually liked being signed into Chrome. It means my browsers are synchronised between my phone, laptop, tablet and desktop. If that means I'm being "spied on" then so be it. They are going to find my search history very boring.
I eventually found and disabled "Enable new profile management system" then duly clicked relaunch (Chrome) - but the drop down box on the menu bar, where you can select switch person or go incognito is still there :-(
I know it's not a huge problem but it does take up space on the menu bar and I just don't want it there because even though it shows that you are using chrome as a registered user, you still have to sign in to Google if you want to access your email, etc.. So as far as I can see there is absolutely no point in the thing being on my menu bar >:(
The only way to hide it now is to add a command flag to the end of your chrome shortcut where it says Target.
C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe --disable-new-avatar-menu
Or if you have chrome installed in Program Files(x86) etc.
32bit version C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe --disable-new-avatar-menu
64bit version C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe --disable-new-avatar-menu
Doing that will make the user button hidden, you might see it again if chrome is launched from somewhere other than the shortcut, ie if you update chrome & & click the relaunch button.