Is there a reason Firefox needs to have vulnerable insecure settings in the templates?

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Is Firefox really an appropriate default browser for Qubes?

I’ve known about this ever since I installed my own DNS qube a while ago, but now I just gotta ask… why the hell is Firefox allowed to be the default browser on a privacy/security OS when every time I launch it it wants to call all of its friends back home? Literally all of them, even its grandma. Sample roster of domains Firefox (at least the one in the Fedora templates) likes to call on every launch: contile.services.mozilla.com detectportal.firefox.com push.services.mozilla.com content-sig…