>12:50 p.m. UTC / 03:50 a.m. PDT: We rolled-out a fix for release, beta and nightly users. The fix will be automatically applied in the background within the next few hours, you don’t need to take active steps.
>In order to be able to provide this fix on short notice, we are using the Studies system. You can check if you have studies enabled by going to Firefox Preferences -> Privacy & Security -> Allow Firefox to install and run studies.
>You can disable studies again after your add-ons have been re-enabled.
>We are working on a general fix that doesn’t need to rely on this and will keep you updated.
I refuse to enable studies, even temporarily. This comes very close after the IE6 conspiracy revelation, where ends justifies the means.
Please provide a link to the certificate file, and step by step instructions for installing it, without enabling and conflating with mozilla studies...
What?!
Yes, Youtube put up a banner asking IE6 users to move to a more modern browser 10 years ago. How is that in any way related to Firefox pushing a hotfix in 2019 to fix a certificate issue? Are you worried there is a big evil conspiracy to use this mechanism to uninstall Internet Explorer from peoples' computers?!
Firefox, it turns out, has a built-in telemetry system that defaults to enable exactly the same behavior: changing your system, to suit their desires.
You’re words “a big evil conspiracy to use this mechanism to uninstall Internet Explorer from peoples' computer” are misleading. No one would propose that the intent is an attack on Microsoft applications. Rather, the intent is to blindfold users on a whim, should a Firefox component prove inconvenient to the providers of Firefox. Ostensibly, in the event that some add-on or extension threatens the bottom line for major backers of Firefox’s funding.