Public perception. For instance, one of the first comments on their post is this: > Why not just post a link to the fix that can be installed WITHOUT enabling

Public perception. For instance, one of the first comments on their post is this: > Why not just post a link to the fix that can be installed WITHOUT enabling Studies? This sounds like a clever plan to get more people to share their data via Studies… I definitely don't agree with that guy, and I doubt that's a majority opinion, but asking people to use a workaround that benefits them (Mozilla) after they broke things for a lot of people is bad publicity for sure. For what it's worth I think Mozilla is doing the right thing here, just it's not going to make them look great.