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When downloading Firefox how can I be sure the mirror that I am sent to hasnt tampered with Firefox?

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When downloading Firefox from the mozilla website, how can I be sure that the mirror that I am sent to hasnt tampered with the Firefox binary executable that I am downloading?

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Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729)

When downloading Firefox from the mozilla website, how can I be sure that the mirror that I am sent to hasnt tampered with the Firefox binary executable that I am downloading? == User Agent == Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729)

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there are checksums available: http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.6.6/