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Users of Mozilla products may override the default root certificate settings by either deleting the root certificate or by changing the trust bit settings of a root certificate. The sections below describe how to make these changes, and how the software responds to such changes.
Users of Mozilla products may override the default root certificate settings by either deleting the root certificate or by changing the trust bit settings of a root certificate. The sections below describe how to make these changes, and how the software responds to such changes.


'''Important:''' If you change the trust bit of a root certificate, that change will be permanent (can only be changed again by you) and will not be affected by upgrading to newer versions of the software.  On the other hand, if you delete a root certificate that is in the default root store, that certificate may re-appear when you restart the program.
'''Important:''' If you change the trust bits of a root certificate, that change will be permanent (can only be changed again by you) and will not be affected by upgrading to newer versions of the software.   
 
'''Important:''' Deleting a root certificate that is in the default root store is equivalent to turning off all of the trust bits for that root. Therefore, even though the root certificate will re-appear in the Certificate Manager, it will be treated as though you changed the trust bits of that root certificate to turn them all off.


== Changing Root Certificate Trust Bit Settings ==
== Changing Root Certificate Trust Bit Settings ==
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