diff --git a/services/web/frontend/js/features/ide-react/context/editor-manager-context.tsx b/services/web/frontend/js/features/ide-react/context/editor-manager-context.tsx
index cc82723aa1..88b31e1294 100644
--- a/services/web/frontend/js/features/ide-react/context/editor-manager-context.tsx
+++ b/services/web/frontend/js/features/ide-react/context/editor-manager-context.tsx
@@ -580,7 +580,7 @@ export const EditorManagerProvider: FC = ({ children }) => {
         editorContent =
           typeof editorContent === 'string'
             ? editorContent
-            : document.doc?._doc.snapshot
+            : document.getSnapshot()
 
         // Tear down the ShareJsDoc.
         if (document.doc) document.doc.clearInflightAndPendingOps()
diff --git a/services/web/frontend/js/features/ide-react/context/references-context.tsx b/services/web/frontend/js/features/ide-react/context/references-context.tsx
index 36f33ba7b1..9aa0430135 100644
--- a/services/web/frontend/js/features/ide-react/context/references-context.tsx
+++ b/services/web/frontend/js/features/ide-react/context/references-context.tsx
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ export const ReferencesProvider: FC = ({ children }) => {
       // avoid reindexing references if the bib file has not changed since the
       // last time they were indexed
       const docId = doc.doc_id
-      const snapshot = doc._doc.snapshot
+      const snapshot = doc.getSnapshot()
       const now = Date.now()
       const sha1 = generateSHA1Hash(
         'blob ' + snapshot.length + '\x00' + snapshot
diff --git a/services/web/frontend/js/features/ide-react/editor/share-js-doc.ts b/services/web/frontend/js/features/ide-react/editor/share-js-doc.ts
index b56d6443dd..7b4e3492f8 100644
--- a/services/web/frontend/js/features/ide-react/editor/share-js-doc.ts
+++ b/services/web/frontend/js/features/ide-react/editor/share-js-doc.ts
@@ -142,11 +142,8 @@ export class ShareJsDoc extends EventEmitter {
 
   private removeCarriageReturnCharFromShareJsDoc() {
     const doc = this._doc
-    if (doc.snapshot.indexOf('\r') === -1) {
-      return
-    }
     let nextPos
-    while ((nextPos = doc.snapshot.indexOf('\r')) !== -1) {
+    while ((nextPos = doc.getText().indexOf('\r')) !== -1) {
       debugConsole.log('[ShareJsDoc] remove-carriage-return-char', nextPos)
       doc.del(nextPos, 1)
     }
@@ -259,7 +256,7 @@ export class ShareJsDoc extends EventEmitter {
   }
 
   getSnapshot() {
-    return this._doc.snapshot as string | undefined
+    return this._doc.getText() as string
   }
 
   getVersion() {
diff --git a/services/web/frontend/js/vendor/libs/sharejs.js b/services/web/frontend/js/vendor/libs/sharejs.js
index a8bbdfaa78..accc2b5b04 100644
--- a/services/web/frontend/js/vendor/libs/sharejs.js
+++ b/services/web/frontend/js/vendor/libs/sharejs.js
@@ -1008,8 +1008,8 @@ export const { Doc } = (() => {
 
         this.type = type;
         if (type.api) {
-          for (var k in type.api) {
-            var v = type.api[k];this[k] = v;
+          for (const k of ['insert', 'del', 'getText', 'getLength', '_register']) {
+            this[k] = type.api[k]
           }
           return typeof this._register === 'function' ? this._register() : undefined;
         } else {
@@ -1322,7 +1322,8 @@ export const { Doc } = (() => {
           var needToRecomputeHash = !this.__lastSubmitTimestamp || (age > RECOMPUTE_HASH_INTERVAL) || (age < 0)
           if (needToRecomputeHash || debugging) {
             // send git hash of current snapshot
-            var sha1 = generateSHA1Hash("blob " + this.snapshot.length + "\x00" + this.snapshot)
+            const str = this.getText()
+            var sha1 = generateSHA1Hash("blob " + str.length + "\x00" + str)
             this.__lastSubmitTimestamp = now;
           }
         }