Question about Mozilla Firefox

[lydias]

Hello,
Just downloaded linux-lite-64bit for my Acer Aspire and I have been using Linux Mint 17.3 just fine. I was looking at the release notes for linux-lite 3.8 and I believe it says that you now provide your own version of my favorite choice of browser. Private browsing is why I use Mozilla Firefox, I have respect for those developers and I believe they have respect for me. Did I understand this correctly: Linux Lite chooses to monitor my searches on my favorite private browser?

[whateverthing]

Hi lydias, welcome to Linux Lite and the community!

The release note about the Google based search homepage doesn't say or imply that your searches are monitored by Linux Lite. I assume that from any use of the search page, Google provides some revenue to Linux Lite. You can choose to change your browser's homepage if you would prefer. But for folks who want to help LL earn some money, and would be using Google for search anyway, its an easy way to support the distro.