Comment 466 for bug 269656

kafpauzo said:

"People tend to interpret the defaults as a very strong recommendation.
When people are uncertain about the consequences of touching a setting, many will see the default as a recommendation that you should disobey only if you have a really compelling reason, and only if you have thought through all the consequences with great care.
As a consequence, the people who need this service will generally be afraid to touch the setting, and will only very rarely turn it on. Meanwhile those who don't need the service can turn it off very easily, for them it's quite trivial."

This can be handled, as I said before, with a screen when you first run firefox saying something like "For safer browsing and anti-phishing protection, it is STRONGLY recommended that you enable these google services. Accepting them means you agree to the terms of use (link)" with a button underneath saying "enable anti-phishing services now". This way, the user doesn't have to go through menus and options, and it will be clear that the recommended and "default" setting is having those services enabled.