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Firefox vs Google

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I thought Firefox is a search engine. Why is it when I search in Firefox it shows Google as the search engine?

I thought Firefox is a search engine. Why is it when I search in Firefox it shows Google as the search engine?

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Firefox itself for iOS, Android, and desktop Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux is a web browser.

Mozilla the company that makes the Firefox applications do not have their own search engine like Google, Bing, Yahoo etc does.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-search-engines-firefox-ios https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-or-disable-search-engines-firefox-ios https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/change-your-default-search-engine-firefox-ios