Thanks for the pointers Phil. Perhaps it isn't really broken. I guess I should at least give it a chance. Still it would have been nice to have a bit of warning, and some explination of the changes, rather than just suddenly finding that it had changed, and being left with no idea how to use it.

Perhaps I over reacted and spoke too soon. If I did, it was because I had a sudden flash-back to the dark days of site "upgrade", when it took many months before the site was back to a reasionable level of functionality.

Still I really liked the combination of the old editor and FireFox. It made checking the spelling very easy (that is very important to me). Now it looks like I'm going to have to install new software to spell check, before I past into the editor, and that's going to slow me down.