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When I setting up and building Firefox for the first time on my system, I encountered an error:

Following this step in the process: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/setup/macos_build.html#bootstrap-a-copy-of-the-firefox-source-code, I ran the bootstrap command of `python3 bootstrap.py --vcs=git`, I was getting back an SSL error, which can be found here: https://paste.mozilla.org/gyOJEiaZ
 
During the time of running that command and receiving that error, I had been running Python3.12.7, which I had just freshly installed from the Python website. 

I took this question to the #introductions channel on Matrix, and after some brief discussion, it was highlighted that the SSL error was appearing because I had not installed the SSL Certificates after downloading the new Python version. The following is a direct explanation from user arai on Matrix:
> the error can happen if you're using non-system-default python, such as the package downloaded from python.org, which has separate certificate store
in that case, easy option is to switch to the system-default one, or setup the certificate store for the non-system-default one

So, the fix was, in the Python folder of the newly downloaded version (in this case, Python 3.12 is the folder name), double click on the file `Install Certificates.command` and wait for the command to be completed. This installs the SSL Certificates needed for the non-default Python version being used, and allows the `python3 bootstrap.py --vcs=git` command to run now.

System used: MacOS (version 14.6.1)

When I setting up and building Firefox for the first time on my system, I encountered an error:

Following this step in the process: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/setup/macos_build.html#bootstrap-a-copy-of-the-firefox-source-code, I ran the bootstrap command of `python3 bootstrap.py --vcs=git`, I was getting back an SSL error, which can be found here: https://paste.mozilla.org/gyOJEiaZ
 
During the time of running that command and receiving that error, I had been running Python3.12.7, which I had just freshly installed from the Python website. 

I took this question to the #introductions channel on Matrix, and after some brief discussion, it was highlighted that the SSL error was appearing because I had not installed the SSL Certificates after downloading the new Python version. The following is a direct explanation from user arai on Matrix:
> the error can happen if you're using non-system-default python, such as the package downloaded from python.org, which has separate certificate store
in that case, easy option is to switch to the system-default one, or setup the certificate store for the non-system-default one

So, the fix was, in the Python folder of the newly downloaded version (in this case, Python 3.12 is the folder name), double click on the file `Install Certificates.command` and wait for the command to be completed. This installs the SSL Certificates needed for the non-default Python version being used, and allows the `python3 bootstrap.py --vcs=git` command to run now.

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System used: MacOS (version 14.6.1)