Firefox 32 has just arrived on the scene.
It appears that many of the Mac OS X difficulties have been resolved/fixed.
However, the tabs on top remains an integral non-option (under View) — although there is an Add-on extension "Tabs on Bottom" which corrects for this.
Coincidentally, "Tabs on Bottom" also allows for the title of the page to be displayed at the top of the window (which tabs on top precluded).
So I've decided to try out Firefox 32 (updated from version 28) together with the Add-on and see how it goes.
