Very interesting. I do wish we had more firefox based browsers though. A firefox based qutebrowser would be very nice, or some other take on keyboard usability, but keeping the firefox background. Unfourtunately, I’ve read that mozilla’s backend is not as modular as chromium, leaving many of the alternative browsers contributing to google’s web hegemony.
To elaborate, articles usually are used to indicate gramatical gender, number and whether the following noun is specific or generic.
English has a,an,the. German has a lot. In most romance languages we have the specific or generic articles and then we change them for gramatical gender and number.