The major search engine providers all have referral fee programs. So while Mozilla does make money from those, it would do that no matter which of the major se

The major search engine providers all have referral fee programs. So while Mozilla does make money from those, it would do that no matter which of the major search engines it defaulted to, no? And note that there is a reason the search field is not merged with the url bar in Firefox. Precisely because it would be a privacy violation.