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> That's ridiculous though. Performing a search is taking text I entered, concatenating it to a URL and opening that. Nowhere in that process does Mozilla need

> That's ridiculous though. Performing a search is taking text I entered, concatenating it to a URL and opening that. Nowhere in that process does Mozilla need to know about what is happening in the local browser of the user. Every browser I’ve used in the past decade does “search as you type” by default. That does require local access to your browser and your key strokes. Normal people wouldn’t use a browser that didn’t do search as you type.

0x0203 2y ago
But at no point does any of what you type need to be sent to Mozilla. That only needs to be between the browser and the configured search engine and nothing in between.
- stevage 2y ago
  It's sort of weird that by that argument Chrome is ok, because Google owns both the search engine and the browser.
  - hnben 2y ago
    GP does not imply, that it would be ok for chrome to send all non-google search-queries to google as well.