I'm with you regarding syncing, never used it myself.
To be honest, my main "wants" from a browser are for it to be capable of using a few simple addons (ad blocker, flash-by-default blocker, YouTube downloader, tiny tabs - cos I have loads of pages open). I also need the browser to suit my way of working. For example, I hate tiny stop/reload buttons at the far end of the address bar as it's the opposite side of the screen to the other navigational controls, so feels illogical and messy to me.
Firefox used to be perfect and customisable, but Firefox 29 screwed a lot of that. They crippled the customisability, the Australis tabs look dreadful if you shrink the size and pack a lot of them together, and they also disposed of the status bar as well.
Modern Firefox therefore is just a pale Chrome imitation these days. It's very sad to see that their response to losing market share wasn't to make themselves more unique, it was to copy Chrome's interface and dump a load of customisability and power that Firefox used to have. Since the change, the loss of market share of Firefox has only accelerated funnily enough.
Must admit that I've never really tried Chrome for a long period of time, only as a "second browser" now and again. Still, Pale Moon is everything that Firefox used to be, so does me fine :)
Pale moon? Now that is exactly what I'm on about. I would never be bothered enough to try anything other than safari (at work), Firefox (at work for things that don't work well in Safari) and Internet explorer on the pc. I just don't care enough to have an opinion. I also prefer the simplicity of ios to the customisability of android. I may have to stop referring to myself as a geek :(
Add THE VETOES to your myspace friends!!! Pretty please :D
I'm similar. I happily used Firefox without caring for years, then one day I fire it up and think "What the fuck is this? Has it been replaced with Chrome suddenly?". I try to customise it back to how I liked it, only Mozilla know better and have removed most the customisation options.
A quick Google later and I stumbled upon Pale Moon. Quickly installed it, and back to how I like it.
I'm not a geek that messes around much. I only use a few addons, but it irks me when they randomly change things for no good reason, and remove functionality at the same time.
