The Chromium-powered Microsoft Edge is the new popular trend in browsers, and even though it's still a piece happening, lots of people already utilize it to replace Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.

Running on a single engine as Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge includes several changes versus the original form of the browser currently offered as default on Windows 10.

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

The best example is dependant on support for Windows Timeline.

Integrated in Windows 10, Timeline is really a feature that makes it easy to create snapshots of apps, documents, and websites and then restore them at a later time on your computer over the following Thirty days.

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

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

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

Now that Microsoft is building a new browser, there's without doubt that whenever the updated Edge is ready, the organization would also offer Timeline integration automatically.

In other words, the current Edge could be substituted for its Chromium-based sibling, so websites loaded in this new browser would be contained in the synced activities in Timeline by default.

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

Called Web Activities, the Chrome extension was created by Microsoft for Google's browser, but it works like a charm using the new Edge too.

Much like in the case of Google Chrome, you have to sign in with your Microsoft account, and ensure you use the same account as in Microsoft Edge and Windows 10. If you want the data to be synced by having an Android device, you have to make use of the same account in your mobile phone too.

Keep in mind, however, that Microsoft Edge is still in the 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 just since the Edge preview happens to be offered to this operating system exclusively, but additionally because Timeline is part of Windows 10.

Support for Timeline is going to 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 time concerning the launch date from the new browser, but Microsoft clearly takes its time to finalize the application. A beta build often see daylight when the the following month in the Build developer conference, as the stable sibling is expected later this season. Versions for macOS and older Windows releases should be published in the coming months too.