Q:

What influences indicator style of users in Google Chrome?

Since learning to use different user profiles in Google Chrome almost three years ago, I've always thought the user representation is the avatar icon on the left corner. This is the case of the vast majority of (Windows) computers I operate.

Except for one particular Windows 8 laptop. Instead of an icon at the left corner, it displays a user name label at the right corner.

I cannot find anything that influences this difference in UI display. Is there something "special" about this computer that causes Chrome to behave/display differently?

A:

The Profile switching UI is currently being revamped, the first picture that you see is the old profile system. The second picture is the new profile system.
The new profile system is not yet live, and Google is known to A/B test UI changes via Chrome Experimental flags
In this case, disabling the New Avatar Menu found under chrome://flags/#enable-new-avatar-menu and disabling the new Profile Management found under chrome://flags/#enable-new-profile-management should result in you getting the old profile back. 
But bear in mind that this is only till Google is testing the feature, once it's Live, then you cannot switch it

