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Timeline!!
sambul95
Sam,
You are mixing apples & oranges. Browser History and having the browser work with Windows 10 Timeline are 2 (very) different things. Sure, one can hold the back button to see past visits & manage that; nothing new.
Timeline is more about the OS than, the browser. It's a Feature of Win10 not, of the browser The browser just has to be compatible with it.
But, Win10 Timeline exists & works, inherently not, 'forced', with the default browser as part of the OS. It can go back a long way (in time), show heaps more activities (than browser history) and one can, actually, 'see' those sites rather than just a list. Plus, there is how one can handle what shows in Timeline, the 'controls' or 'tools' it has AND its search ability. Lastly, it is a nice help when navigating across multiple desktops.
Anyway, the point is, Win10 Timeline works with Edge. But, right now (hopefully this changes, soon!), Timeline will not work with Edge C without adding an extension from the Chrome store. Having to do that should not be necessary any more than it is w/ Edge.
Sure Timeline is browser history, BUT, it is far more than what the back button gives❗ If Win10 offers one all the neat stuff it does, one may as well, actually, use the stuff & be able to use it.
Cheers,
Drew
Drew1903 Agree! We are close to public stable release and native Timeline integration is sadly not here still. 😞
We should not rely on having extensions on something that is native Windows feature and when it already exist from Edge UWP.
Yes there are users who don't need it or dislike it, but there should be a simple switch to turn it off. But I think by default its worth to be enabled, since it can be really useful.
there are 3 more sync options remaining to be implemented, History, Extension and Collections syncing.
there is still time until the stable version comes out
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Discussions/When-do-you-think-stable-version-of-chromium-edge-would-be-out/td-p/967917