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Re:European Commission fines Google €2.42B for abusing domin... by trevos on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @10:07AM (#14645474)
Google's dominance is so complete that for years even their top browser competitor, Firefox, came preset to use an omnibox with Google as the default search engine, meaning that everything one typed into the browser was sent to Google, even if not actually a Google search.

This integration with Google is pervasive in Firefox; there are dozens of settings built into the browser that send information to various Google services. Yes, it's possible to change all of them, but probably less than 0.001% of users will do that. This is why it's not possible to take Firefox's claim that they are pro-privacy seriously.

Re:European Commission fines Google €2.42B for abusing domin... by Karunamon on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @04:35PM (#14649157)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Firefox doesn't have a proper omnibox. It has an explicitly split search and URL field.
Re:European Commission fines Google €2.42B for abusing domin... by wstrange on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @03:08PM (#14648302)
Firefox defaulted to Google search because they got paid a ton of money to do so.