Websites displaying weirdly [with screenshots]

[aduseia]

There are display issues with many websites I use regularly. It started happening recently, within the last week or so. Things like larger/smaller text, improper fonts, images not displaying, elements missing.

Not sure how to reproduce it.

Here’s a screenshot of Safari:

And here’s a screenshot of Brave. As you can see, no selection boxes on gmail with weird font as well, and slightly larger.

Youtube header logo missing.

Brave Version: Version 1.78.102

Things I’ve tried: Uninstall and reinstall Brave, clear cache.

[Evan123]

Hello - Does toggling Shields change your experience?

If you clear cookies/history do you see an improvement?

[aduseia]

Toggling shields doesn’t do any unfortunately. As for clearing cookies/history, that didn’t help either.

[aduseia]

Is there anything else that can be done?

[Mattches]

@aduseia can you please try creating a fresh browser profile (in Brave, Menu --> More tools --> Add profile), then close your original profile window and try viewing these sites in the new profile and tell me if they display the same way?

[aduseia]

OK it did work! The same websites are displaying properly now.

Any idea what could have caused that issue?

[Mattches]

If you cleared cache/site data for those sites already and it did not resolve the issue, it may be a specific browser extension you have installed. Can you try disabling any installed extensions in your main profile and see if that resolves the issue?

[aduseia]

Thanks a lot, I found out which extension it was (after trying each, one by one). I’ll remove it and contact the developer to see if they can look into this.