[0x0203]

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]

It's sort of weird that by that argument Chrome is ok, because Google owns both the search engine and the browser.

[hnben]

GP does not imply, that it would be ok for chrome to send all non-google search-queries to google as well.