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The problem isn't what the TOU says, it's the fact that there's a TOU at all. The browser isn't a service that needs terms, it's an application that shouldn't have any.
There are in fact a ton of services that browsers interface with on behalf of a user. Always have been. For example, Firefox uses the Google Safe Browsing service to protect against phishing. They use location services to fulfill the Geolocation API. They call DNS servers to find the website you want, etc, etc.
Applications do have terms, they're called EULA's. It's the same idea. Also nothing new, I've been clicking through that shit since the year 2000.
You are failing to distinguish between Mozilla and Firefox. Firefox being a standalone application. Firefox performs DNS queries on my behalf. Mozilla doesn't get my DNS queries, they don't need a license for my DNS queries.