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There are many reasons. One of the reasons is this sneaky one.
Then there's more than enough telemetry Mozilla makes use of in Firefox you need to disable in about:config where most users don't even look. Lookup the following options:
Everytime you start Firefox it sends your location to Mozilla. Lookup these options:
These are just a few things Mozilla does and pretty much nobody talks about because they are considered trustworthy. But let's be real here: Trust is good, control is better. That's why I made some research about Mozilla and found out about the above things.