I may be wrong here, but I think I vaguely remember that each language version of Wikipedia is supposed to represent the speakers of the language.
Expect of course when Africans do something that woke people in California don’t like. The Wikimedia Foundation considers it important to be able to prevent people in Uganda from writing about a topic like homosexuality in a way that’s representative of the views of Ugandian speakers.
If a programmer sends you a smaller image file because they are able to use a format that compresses the image, then most of the impact on you as a end-user is not that you are prevent with new features but just that the website loads faster. Today, Firefox seems to also support WebP but there was a time when it didn’t and was lagging behind.
When asking ChatGPT for current examples of what Chrome allows but Firefox doesn’t it gives me the examples:
Temporal API: This API provides better tools for date and time manipulation, addressing many shortcomings of the existing Date object. Chrome has implemented this, but Firefox’s support is still partial and experimental (SitePoint) (DailyDev).
Pipeline Operator: This feature, often used in functional programming, allows for easier chaining of functions. While it is available in Chrome (especially in experimental versions like Chrome Canary), it is not yet fully supported in Firefox (SitePoint) (DailyDev).
Records and Tuples: These immutable data structures are supported in Chrome but are still not fully available in Firefox. They provide a way to create data structures that cannot be altered, enhancing data integrity and consistency (SitePoint) (DailyDev).
Top-Level Await: This feature allows the use of
await
at the top level of modules, simplifying asynchronous code. Chrome supports this feature fully, while Firefox has partial support and ongoing work to improve it (DailyDev).Using immutable data structures is for example a way to reduce bugs and not to “inflict new features” on users. Even if your goal is just websites that are faster and have fewer bugs, programmers being able to use these four things is helpful.