Security News > 2021 > September > Mozilla tests Microsoft Bing as the default Firefox search engine
Mozilla is running a study to test users' responses to changing the default Firefox search engine to Microsoft Bing.
Like all browsers, Mozilla Firefox automatically configures a browser to a default search engine for performing searches via the address bar.
Google is the default search engine for Chrome, Brave, and Firefox, while not surprisingly, Bing is the default search engine for Microsoft Edge.
This is because Google and Mozilla reportedly signed a deal where Google pays between $400-$450 million per year until 2023 for Firefox to use Google Search as the default search engine.
As first reported by Ghacks, a new SUMO search experiment launched on September 6th, 2021, will configure Bing as the default search engine for 1% of all Firefox Desktop users.
Firefox users whose default search engine is changed can use the following steps to switch to a different one.
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