It appears to add fewer than other browsers, but I’m not quite sure why it adds “?channel=fenc&client=firefox-b-1-d” to searches when only the q/query parameter is needed for them to work.
It appears to add fewer than other browsers, but I’m not quite sure why it adds “?channel=fenc&client=firefox-b-1-d” to searches when only the q/query parameter is needed for them to work.
As mentioned in the superuser forum, Google pays Mozilla ~$400M/year to be used as the default search engine. The tracking parameters is how Firefox tells Google the search is part of this contract deal.