How to Use Windows 10 Timeline with Chromium Microsoft Edge Browser

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How to Use Windows 10 Timeline with Chromium Microsoft Edge Browser 

 

The Chromium-powered Microsoft Edge is the new big thing in browsers, and despite the fact that it’s still a work in progress, many people already use it to replace Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.

 

Running on the same engine as Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge comes with several changes versus the original version of the browser currently offered as default on Windows 10.

One of them is support for extensions, which in turns creates a series of other benefits that Windows 10 users, in particular, are going to love.

The best example comes down to support for Windows Timeline.

Integrated in Windows 10, Timeline is a feature that makes it possible to create snapshots of apps, documents, and websites and then restore them at a later time on your PC within the next 30 days.

Timeline supports more than just Windows 10, and thanks to the updates that Microsoft delivered to its Android apps, you can now sync websites with a mobile device as well.

Previously, Timeline was limited to the original version of Microsoft Edge in Windows 10, but last year, the software giant rolled out a browser add-on to enable it for Google Chrome too.

Delivered as an extension, this tool made it possible to have Chrome websites included in the snapshots created with Windows Timeline, which technically means that users no longer have to stick with Edge for browsing the web. This is excellent news, especially on mobile where Google Chrome is the preferred choice for many more users and is also the default Android browser.

 

 

 

Now that Microsoft is building a new browser, there’s no doubt that when the updated Edge is ready, the company would also offer Timeline integration by default.

In other words, the current Edge would be replaced with its Chromium-based sibling, so websites loaded in this new browser would be included in the synced activities in Timeline by default.

At this point, however, you can only do this using the aforementioned Chrome extension. Again, this is one of the major benefits of Microsoft Edge migrating to the Chromium engine.

Called Web Activities, the Chrome extension was developed by Microsoft for Google’s browser, but it works like a charm with the new Edge as well.

Just like in the case of Google Chrome, you need to sign in with your Microsoft account, and make sure you use the same account as in Microsoft Edge and Windows 10. If you want the data to be synced with an Android device, you must use the same account on your mobile phone too.
 

 

 

Keep in mind, however, that Microsoft Edge is still in its early days right now, so not everything might work exactly as expected, especially if you are running the Canary build.

Needless to say, this feature is only aimed at Windows 10 users, not only because the Edge preview is currently offered to this operating system exclusively, but also because Timeline is part of Windows 10.

Support for Timeline will be offered in Microsoft Edge natively when the browser reaches the final development stage. The browser will also become the new default in Windows 10, so it makes sense for Microsoft to offer such features.

There’s no ETA at this point regarding the launch date of the new browser, but Microsoft clearly takes its time to finalize the application. A beta build could see daylight as soon as the next month at the Build developer conference, while the stable sibling is expected later this year. Versions for macOS and older Windows releases should be published in the coming months too.

 

 

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