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Hi,
As a first time poster, I'm not sure if this is the correct place, but here goes. Would it be possible to have a graphical display of History rather than a simple list. As someone who flits around with new tabs, following down a rabbit-hole on occasion, I often forget how I arrived at a particular point if I accidentally close the tab, having a display that shows the history per tab, with thumbnail of site would be really useful rather than looking for a site name.
In addition to home users and businesses the feature would also be really useful for both students and academics alike.
Anyway, apologies if this is the wrong place - thoughts from anyone?
NclSimon
Hi Simon,
This is a fine place for it, no worries. Ok, so, couple of things:
1. Hold the back button to see History (Alt+Left arrow)
2. Use Timeline via the Taskview button (Rt Clk Taskbar to enable that button) OR Win+Tab
3. Thumbnails for open browser tabs is supposed to be coming (we think 🤞)
NclSimon wrote:Hi,
As a first time poster, I'm not sure if this is the correct place, but here goes. Would it be possible to have a graphical display of History rather than a simple list. As someone who flits around with new tabs, following down a rabbit-hole on occasion, I often forget how I arrived at a particular point if I accidentally close the tab, having a display that shows the history per tab, with thumbnail of site would be really useful rather than looking for a site name.
In addition to home users and businesses the feature would also be really useful for both students and academics alike.
Anyway, apologies if this is the wrong place - thoughts from anyone?
Hi,
graphical display of History rather than a simple list..well I think you're referring to the Windows 10's Taskview (previously known as Timeline), which shows web history with their images, dates etc in a nice graphical interface.
TaskView is more than just web history of course,
it shows you history of all of your works you do across your Windows 10 devices connected to the same Microsoft account.
in order to view Edge insider web history in there, Microsoft needs to add History syncing to the browser.
the current built in Edge browser already has history sync that's why its web history appear in the Taskview, but the new Edge insider is missing it and Microsoft confirmed they are going to add it in the January
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Discussions/Top-feedback-summary-for-November-4/td-p/978022
you can post your questions and ideas by creating a new topic here:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Discussions/bd-p/EdgeInsiderDiscussions
read more about Taskview in here:
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-use-task-view-windows-10
Apologies for my late response. I must have missed Timeline/Taskview, although as you suggest a discrete Edge version would be more along what I would be looking for. Good that its coming back in January, perhaps in that version different views available?
But thank you for pointing out something I've clearly missed.HotCakeX
NclSimon wrote:Apologies for my late response. I must have missed Timeline/Taskview, although as you suggest a discrete Edge version would be more along what I would be looking for. Good that its coming back in January, perhaps in that version different views available?
But thank you for pointing out something I've clearly missed.HotCakeX
It's okay ^^
Yes in January it should come (as developers said), first in Canary and Dev channels and after a series of tests, it will be passed on to the Beta and then Stable channel for everyone to use.
Sync features are apparently very time consuming to Implement into the browsers.
