diff --git a/aqt/editor.py b/aqt/editor.py
index 1589afc3f..87012eab0 100644
--- a/aqt/editor.py
+++ b/aqt/editor.py
@@ -256,6 +256,7 @@ class Editor:
                 return
             txt = urllib.parse.unquote(txt)
             txt = unicodedata.normalize("NFC", txt)
+            txt = self.mungeHTML(txt)
             # misbehaving apps may include a null byte in the text
             txt = txt.replace("\x00", "")
             # reverse the url quoting we added to get images to display
@@ -287,6 +288,10 @@ class Editor:
         else:
             print("uncaught cmd", cmd)
 
+    def mungeHTML(self, txt):
+        txt = re.sub(r"<br>$", "", txt)
+        return txt
+
     # Setting/unsetting the current note
     ######################################################################