Thought it was just me, but as lindyloo pointed it out I guess it isn't, since the most recent changes have been made i have to press the Back button twice for some reason - bit irritating!
The Maoists would probably regard the "couple of hours" as being the bit just after the revolution and before the resurgence of bourgeois revisionism. Bring back the colours! Bring back the text editing thingy! Bring back the glorious triumph of HTMLism! Down with the revisionists! All hail the glorious advances of the AB Editor into the bright new dawn of New ABism!