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For the last few months we've been working on improving the file browser that we use with TinyMCE in Aptuitiv Studio and I'm pleased to announce that it's now ready. We've been using the TinyBrowser plugin and while it does a good job and has a fair amount of functionality it also has a few shortcomings.

Aptuitiv Studio uses TinyMCE as the rich text editor and we recently upgraded it from version 3.2.6 to 3.3.4. For the most part the upgrade was smooth and from an end user perspective the way the editor works stayed fairly consistent. There was however one thing that was significantly different and that is the Paste as Plain Text functionality.

Aptuitiv Studio uses the TinyMCE editor as our rich-text editor for editing pages and other content.  We've recently gotten a few requests to support spell checking in Firefox and decided to find out why it wasn't working.

The problem

Firefox and Safari have a really nice built-in spell check system that will underline misspelled words with a red line.  If you right click with your mouse then you'll get a menu that will give suggested spellings. Misspelled words do get underlined in Aptuitiv Studio, however, when you right click in the TinyMCE editor you get a different menu and that menu doesn't include any spell check options.