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Is Mozilla Firefox a web browser or search engine

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UnknownTommy58
UnknownTommy58

Need to know what the tool in my hand is. Is it a web browser, search engine, neither, both or more than both?

Need to know what the tool in my hand is. Is it a web browser, search engine, neither, both or more than both?

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Firefox is a web browser as google.com or bing.com for example are search engine websites. In en-US Firefox the default search engine changed from Google to Yahoo however you can change it.

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Jon Gregory
Jon Gregory

Mozilla is a web browser, not a search engine. Its default search engine is yahoo, although that can be configured in preferences.

James (On Vacation)
James (On Vacation)
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Firefox is a web browser as google.com or bing.com for example are search engine websites. In en-US Firefox the default search engine changed from Google to Yahoo however you can change it.

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cor-el
cor-el
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See also:

https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Browsing+basics https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Tabbed+browsing

https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Keyboard+shortcuts https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Mouse+shortcuts

Modified by cor-el