Chrome and Firefox Get Windows 10 Timeline Support Via Third-party Extension

Introduced with the Apr 2018 update, the timeline is an attractive characteristic of Windows 10 that lets you catch up with documents or web pages you have been using just recently on multiple devices. The one major drawback of this characteristic was that it showed the browser history just from Microsoft Edge.

This shortcoming will, however, be a thing of the by thank you to a third-party browser extension that enables you to show third-party browsers in the Timeline.

Windows ten's Timeline feature never officially secured support for browsers other than Edge, such as Google Chrome and Firefox, but the aptly-named 'Windows Timeline Back up' extension makes information technology possible for both of these browsers. This extension, developed past Dominic Maas, is costless to download and works with Chrome, Firefox, and Vivaldi (the browser for power users).

Chrome and Firefox Get Windows 10 Timeline Support Via Third-party Extension

This extension operates exactly in the style you'd expect information technology to. Information technology syncs your browsing history from Chrome or Firefox to the Timeline feature, and so you tin only access whatsoever of your old tabs on your PC or whatever other Windows 10 systems connected to same Microsoft accounts.

This extension works past syncing your browser history to the Microsoft account that you've used to log into the organisation, every bit well as the extension. Yes, you need to log into the extension to beginning seeing your tabs in the Timeline. The extension also uses Project Rome APIs to let you to share the currently active browser tab across devices.

The Timeline feature in Windows 10 is now going to get a lot more useful equally Edge is unremarkably not the first browser of choice for well-nigh users. Chrome, trailed by Firefox, is preferred past near individuals and being able to see your history beyond many devices – at home or the office is surely a great feature. So, are you excited to try out this extension? Let us know in the comments below.