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In conclusion, the changes Mozilla makes to Mozilla's read-only list of trusted root certs affect only those certs that do not also appear in your cert DB. When you cause copies of any of those certs to appear in your cert DB, then you have taken control of the trust for those copies, and changes made by Mozilla thereafter to those certs will not affect you.
= How To Restore Default Root Certificate Settings =
The changes that you make to security certificate settings are stored in a profile file named cert8.db.
Relevant Firefox Help articles:
* [http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/profiles About Profiles]
**Security certificate settings: The cert8.db file stores all your security certificate settings and any SSL certificates you have imported into Firefox.
* [http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Backing%20up%20your%20information Backing Up Your Profile Information]
* [http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Recovering%20important%20data%20from%20an%20old%20profile Recovering Your Profile Information]
