The transition from EdgeHTML to Chromium allows Microsoft to add several additional features to Edge browser, including functionality that's already available in other browsers like Google Chrome.

This can be a major benefit of the Chromium engine, as Microsoft Edge would technically have a similar feature lineup as Google Chrome.

Quite simply, Edge would not be the very best browser to download Google Chrome, but a very capable replacement that's certainly going to convince many Windows 10 users to stick with it.

Included in the feature lineup that Microsoft borrows from Google thanks to the migration to Chromium is support for Picture-in-Picture (PiP), an element that's also offered to Chrome users.

PiP is basically an element that makes it possible for users to look at videos online while browsing the web or focusing on a pc keeping on screen nothing more than just the actual window where the submissions are playing.

How you may use this in Microsoft Edge is very like the one out of Google Chrome, primarily due to the Chromium engine that powers both. So here's what you need to do in order to activate Picture-in-Picture in Microsoft Edge.

First of all, you have to obviously run the new Chromium-powered Microsoft Edge. Point the browser to YouTube.com - Picture-in-Picture should use other video sharing services, but for now, only YouTube along with a couple others seem to be supported.

Once you start playing a relevant video in the new Edge browser, you need to right-click the playing video twice - this really is necessary since the first right-click fires up the standard context menu with video controls like video URL, embed code, and loop options. Another right-click brings up additional options, such as the Picture-in-Picture mode that we're talking about here.

Once you enable this playing mode, a floating video window should display in the bottom right corner from the screen. You can hit the play button and also the window stays on the watch's screen, playing the recording regardless of what you're doing around the device.

There aren't a lot of options in this window because you're only supplied with the standard play/pause options along with a small X that allows you to close the window. An expand button is also available if you want to exit the PiP mode and go back to the standard playing mode on YouTube.

There's not much you can expect out of this feature in a browser, so don't expect any major improvements to become implemented by Microsoft within the next updates.

Microsoft Edge itself is still within the very early development stages, therefore the version that we're testing out here isn't the official release, but only a leaked build that was compiled by the organization a few weeks ago.

Microsoft originally promised to roll out a preview build from the Chromium-powered Microsoft Edge in early 2019, and because of the leaked version has already been here, I'm guessing we're not very not even close to the moment the company would ship it to registered testers.

As for the stable version of the new Microsoft Edge, expect it to visit live later this season, but an ETA in connection with this isn't yet available. Obviously, Microsoft got its time to complete the introduction of the browser, especially as it'd be provided not just to Windows 10 users, but also to those running older versions of Windows, Linux, and macOS.

PiP also exists in other browsers available along with Google Chrome, including Vivaldi and Opera. Mozilla is also focusing on an identical feature for Firefox, so sooner or later, practically all big browsers includes such capabilities.