# Brave acting like a text editor and more

**URL:** <https://community.brave.app/t/brave-acting-like-a-text-editor-and-more/228281>\
**Category:** Desktop Support\
**Tags:** windows\
**Created:** [April 6, 2021, 7:25pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/brave-acting-like-a-text-editor-and-more/228281 "2021-04-06T19:25:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Boufty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbce88/32.png) [@Boufty](https://community.brave.app/u/Boufty)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2021, 7:25pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/brave-acting-like-a-text-editor-and-more/228281/1 "2021-04-06T19:25:56Z")

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**Description of the issue:**  
**How can this issue be reproduced?**  
(Happened out of nowhere)

**Expected result:**

- The blinking bar you can see while editing text appears on text you cannot edit (like titles, articles, messages and whatnot)  
 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/brave/original/3X/b/8/b806ab697a58ac6049ab6e5e24128fe3b8adee0a.png)
- Youtube comments do not load (no spinning loading thingy, no empty comments, there is literally nothing)

**Brave Version( check `About Brave`):**  
Version 1.22.71 Chromium: 89.0.4389.114  
**Additional Information:**  
My Brave browser is in French (just so you know, probably doesn’t change anything about the bug)

This is so weird and random that I feel the only way to fix it is to uninstall.

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**Author:** ![Boufty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbce88/32.png) [@Boufty](https://community.brave.app/u/Boufty)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2021, 12:48pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/brave-acting-like-a-text-editor-and-more/228281/2 "2021-04-07T12:48:18Z")

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Update : Youtube comments were unrelated as they are back ! Brave still thinks it’s a text editor though.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/brave/original/3X/1/8/182067f3480d1a5e7aea5ae3131b116ca1ef7918.png) [@system](https://community.brave.app/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2021, 12:49pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/brave-acting-like-a-text-editor-and-more/228281/3 "2021-05-07T12:49:09Z")

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Closed on May 7, 2021, 12:49pm UTC

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