Spellcheck doesn’t activate for English or French. I’ve seen multiple threads here, with screenshots showing that we are suposed to see a language under the “Spell check” section.
I don’t.
I would love to be able to correct words when I write on my blog (in French) and maybe get spell check for english on the rest of the web as well. This is a major drawback and I can’t understand why there is posts about it since the beginning of Brave life…
I use Windows and Nightly mode, so unless it is like a MacOS bug, seems like it shouldn’t happen.
If you want to see if it is a MacOS bug or something you can try to fix, you can start the browser with --user-data-dir= and give it a temporary folder, then you will get a fresh install of Brave and only tests to see if you get the spell check or not, if not, well, there is something weird.
But since I am not a mac person, I can’t know if it needs a system setting for it to work or something. Because Brave will use only the “basic” spell check, since Brave didn’t add enhanced one for avoiding giving data to Google, but I saw in this page:
Chrome or your operating system provides the spell check.
So that’s why you should test if it is a bug or a system setting.
You should do the --user-data-dir= in the terminal and add some temporary directory to use as user data for Brave. I don’t think you don’t need to close Brave to use that, on Windows, they act like different instances of Brave, so you can use both instances at the same time.
That way you will see if it is Brave or something inside your current profile. If it is Brave, it might be a bug I know @Mattches can confirm if spell check works in Brave since he uses MacOS and maybe if Brave on MacOS needs some system setting enabled to be active.
open -a "Brave Browser.app" -n --args --user-data-dir=PATH
But in Windows it would do it like: brave --user-data-dir="%localappdata%\BraveSoftware\Test User Data" and done.
%localappdata% is a variable to go to C:\Users\username\appdata\local\, so it will use C:\Users\username\appdata\local\BraveSoftware\Test User Data.
Then Brave opens in a new version, clean version, and when you close it you just delete Test User Data folder manually, or leave it there, since it will not do anything unless you open Brave with that command again.
You will not be stuck in any loop since this only works when starting Brave with it, so it doesn’t modify any data in your normal user profile directory. which should be in BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\ whatever folder Brave uses in Mac.
> System Settings, then click Keyboard 
in the sidebar. (You may need to scroll down.)
