Spell Check Problem

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I have been using Brave Browser for several years on Linux Mint OS with zero problems but about 2-3 months ago my Spell Check started to shut off with the button still showing ON ….. I told by a third party to go into Settings and turn the button from on to off and it would work again …. I did and they were right BUT in a couple of days it shut down again …. this kept happening on and off again up until now …..

I searched on the forum and found about 4-5 persons with the same problem … no real answers were given to solve the problem and the topic was closed …… Brave is set to auto-update by my OS …. here is my Brave info:

Brave 1.86.139 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Chromium: 144.0.7559.59

My laptop info:

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Thank you for any help you may provide

Mike

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As far as I know, Brave and all Chromium browsers get their dictionary from the OS itself.

What is other Chromium based browsers currently doing?

(PS, your OS has not updated Brave in a while, we are on 1.87.191 currently, your version is from December of last year).

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Thanks for your reply … I am currently checking into why Mint did not update Brave since last year …. I keep a copy of all Mint updates by year … I did an Update Command in the terminal and discovered that Brave does not have the following “ NO_PUBKEY 0686B78420038257 “ ….. not sure just exactly what that means …. but I’m research that also …..

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Ahh, this sounds familiar!

Check out that thread, another Mint user too. Check the bottom reply, it has a fix which is re-run the curl command.

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I went to the Brave download page and copied the terminal command for the Key-ring and installed it again ….

sudo curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg

Did a sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade and it seemed to remove the warnings so it appears to have solved the problem but only time will tell …. LOL

Thanks for your help I appreciate it ….

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That likely is all that would be needed to fix it.

It appears someone else on GitHub found that sudo apt install brave-keyring also fixed it (though re-running the script you ran seems to achieve ultimately the same thing).

Let me know how it goes, if it continues working or not. (I’m just a user but don’t mind helping once in a while.)

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Will do sometimes it may take a few days as it is pretty sporadic ….. ok so far … LOL

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I found this a bit interesting as I save all mint OS updates from when I started using it in 2024 ….. used Zorin OS before that …… here is what I found out …..

Brave Browser Updates On Mint OS

Started recording Mint updates on 9-9-2024

First Brave update was: - 09-12-2024 ver 1.69.168

2025

Version ——- Date

1.84.135 —— 11-07

1.84.139 ——- 11-13

1.84.141 ——- 11-19

1.85.111 ——– 12-04

1.85.116 ——- 12-12

1.85.117 ——— 12-18

1.85.118——– 12-20

2026

1.85.120 ——- 01-08

1.85.139 ——– 01-16

Current version from keyring change: 3-1-2026

Brave 1.87.191 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Chromium: 145.0.7632.120

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Just received my first update today it is now 1.87.192 from 1/87.191 so we’ll see how it goes …. spell check is still working ….. :joy: