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by atemerev 1328 days ago
Advertising and branding. Google is a search monopoly, and has (or used to have) the reputation of "we are making high-quality software". We have a web search monopoly, because our search engine is the best, so why not trust us for making the best browser too?

Firefox has no search engine monopoly to advertise and build its brand upon.