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Aubrey Portwood

Aubrey Portwood — @aubreypwd

Web Performance Engineer, former Senior WordPress Developer, Stoic, Girl-Dad², Tennis Player, & Vintage Computer Tinkerer based in Albuquerque, NM

How to set custom profile avatar in Google Chrome (macOS) w/out changing your Google Account picture

1. Set your avatar to the cat one
2. Goto /Users/.../Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Avatars
3. Replace avatarorigamicat.png with the custom avatar you want

Even though it shows as the cat icon:

…and in tools like Choosy:

April 24, 2023

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