[HTTPS-Everywhere] what does HTTPS-Everywhere consider a "valid" X.509 certificate? [was: Re: Custom rules]

[Chris Palmer]

Seth Schoen writes:

> I think you're misunderstanding.  I think the proposal is simply to
> have a way to segregate rules by _whether they trigger a warning_ in
> a vanilla Firefox install.  By default, only rules that do not
> trigger a warning would be turned on.

Oh, I see. Sorry about that, Mike and all.

Why should HTTPS Everywhere have any interaction at all with Firefox'
certificate acceptance policy, whatever it is by default and whatever it is
after user reconfiguration)? Shouldn't the two pieces be orthogonal?