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by hashtag-til 666 days ago
Does this affect non Chrome users?
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It's a proposed web standard, so ultimately yes, it could affect other browsers in the long run. And it would almost certainly affect other Chromium-based browsers.
Only other chromium web browsers that enable that feature. Safari and Firefox already said they're not implementing the feature, so unless they change their mind it's not going anywhere.
Since Chrome dominates the browser market, they just pay lip service to the web standards process.

They will have this as proposal, its status will be "not on any standards track", it will be shipped in Chrome, and enabled by default.

It's proposed, but it's unlikely to be accepted.

Firefox and Safari have both said "no, we're not doing that". And then chrome decided to move forward with it, regardless of whether it gets standardized.