After update firefox add something without my consent why

From MS Internet Explorer I moved to Firefox browser because of its nice features specially privacy and security but I wonder what is the need that Firefox after recent update start showing at the bottom?
"Firefox automatically send some data to Mozilla so that we can improve your experience. (Choose What I share)."
What kind of data do you send? ( I can't guess).
I will post screen shot in the next post because you won't allow to attach in the first post. Strange???
Thank you.

Here is a screen shot for my previous post
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