Not possible duplicating profile settings when creating new profile

[diyoyo]

Description

I cannot find a way to use the current profile settings to create a new profile. Everytime I create a new profile, I have to reconfigure everything!

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create new profile
2. Change settings
3. Try to create a second profile

Actual result:

All the settings are reset to default settings

Expected result:

Either have the option to clone a profile, or just start from the current profile's settings as default, or have the option to change the default settings for new profiles... up to you, all three options are fine with me :D

Reproduces how often:

Everytime.

[xa4hf8]

Duplicate/clone user profiles

User interface example

Related Issues

• [Feature Request] Custom Profile Avatar for multiple Profiles #13182

• Feature: Make copying/moving stuff between profiles easy #28693

• Allow users to export/import their user profiles #15755

• Option for exchanging data between different profiles. #18665

• Import data and settings from another Brave channel #1357

• Feature request: Multi-Account Containers like Firefox's one #6346

Brave Community

• Clone / duplicate profile

• How could I duplicate profile settings? [wrongfully closed]

• Cloning profiles

[karlmiles]

I found a manual way of duplicating a profile that seems to work for my needs, at least on Linux with release 135.1.77.100 - not tried it on any other set-up. I know it's not an answer to the original issue of a GUI feature, but it may be a viable workaround for those (like me!) that aren't willing to wait.

Important things to note:

• I do not use Sync at all (in any browser).
• I do not use PWAs on this machine.
• I do have working backups to restore from.

Steps:

1. Shutdown Brave entirely.

2. Change directory to where your profile is stored, e.g.:

$ cd ~/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser

3. Clone the profile directory, recursively, maintaining permissions, timestamps, etc. (You will need to replace Profile2 with the next consecutive number if it already exists, and use whatever that is in step 4 also):

$ cp -dpR Default Profile2

4. Launch Brave from the terminal with your newly cloned profile:

$ brave --profile-directory=Profile2

Brave should now start up with your duplicated profile. Now you can shutdown Brave again, and on future launches, you'll get the profile selector dialog, just like if you created a new profile in the usual way.

If you didn't perform step 4, Brave behaves like this new profile doesn't exist.

So far, it seems to be working fine - I've modified settings & added/removed extensions in both profiles without any problem.