[d12bb]

Oh, they absolutely do, like 90% of the funding for Mozilla comes from Google.

[irrational]

Google just does that so they don't get broken up. But that doesn't mean Firefox is sending your data to Google.

[account42]

It does exatcly mean that Firefox is (by default) sending your searches to Google.

Mozilla also uses Google Analytics on their websites and keep testing the waters with putting ads right into the browser. Users are absolutely justified in not trusting Mozilla's claims about caring for privacy.