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Why does Firefox trust Symantec's certificate in this way?

It's a mistake in the Firefox application that it trusts Symantec's cert in this way.

This is the result of a personal grudge between Firefox and Symantec.

The Web Technology Consortium specified that Symantec's cert shall not be used to sign web certs.

The US government is blockading Symantec's certs as part of the trade war against China.

Symantec demonstrated exceptionally poor operational security with regards to its power as a certificate authority and was forced by Google to sell its certificate authority business.

Symantec lost a NIST competition, and was therefore stripped of its power as a root certificate authority.

Because email signing will replace all internet communication in the future.