Why should Firefox permission to "discover known accounts" on a phone?

This authorization is not covered on the Firefox Android privacy policy.
Thank you.

http://support.Mozilla.org/en-us/KB/how-Firefox-Android-use-permissions-it-requests

If you have set up Firefox Sync, then Firefox uses these permissions to add your account synchronization for sync Android settings.

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