>> Why should the functioning of a browser be dependent on telemetry working? That was my thought after reading the start of it. Like "Oh no, Firefox has falle

>> Why should the functioning of a browser be dependent on telemetry working? That was my thought after reading the start of it. Like "Oh no, Firefox has fallen into that void where their need for telemetry trumps users". Another product falling down at doing its primary function. But after reading the entire report that's just not fair at all. A bug relating to telemetry and their network stack caused failure in that networking code which affected everything. That is entirely different than software depending on telemetry to function properly. It wasn't by design that failing to phone home broke the software, it really was just a bug - a fairly obscure one. Sounds like if someone wanted they could just as easily blame the use of Rust in Firefox since some of the code involved was written in Rust. But that's not a fair or accurate conclusion either.