I don’t even use Firefox, and I honestly am not attacking but your comment seemed very hyperbolic and with little detail.
Well I used to use Firefox as my main browser, however it does a LOT of calling home. Just fire Wireshark alongside it and see how much calling home and even calling 3rd parties it does. From basic ocsp requests to calling Firefox servers and a 3rd party company that does analytics they do it all, even after disabling most stuff in Settings and config like a sane user would do.
I can’t stand behind a browser that still calls home after painstakingly going over every setting in config and disabling everything that can be disabled. If you search a bit online you’ll also find that I’m not the only one finding this. There’s also the shady finances thing around Firefox and the foundation.
describes a token to track installations vs downloads. (…) Also there is an opt-out during installation.
How much do you trust that toggle? Did you ever test if it doesn’t call home before you get to the opt out?