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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Please, Google, I'm begging: tidy up the Chrome Extensions Gallery!

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Ok, Google, I know your big thing is search. And I know it's a great way to get around my GMail inbox and find stuff on the Internet -- but it's just not that awesome in the Google Chrome Extension Gallery.

While the number of extensions available might be catching up to Firefox, the Mozilla site is infinitely more enjoyable to explore. There we can browse by tags, categories, sift through the many user-created collections, and see add-ons similar to the one we're currently looking at. Search is available, too, but it's definitely nice to have a wide variety of options.

To be fair, the Chrome Gallery does have two categories: extensions and themes. There's no link to the themes, of course, but you can see it listed on a page like this one in the navigation breadcrumbs. Only one slight problem: the link actually takes you back to the Gallery home page. Not to a listing of only themes as you'd expect.

And yes, we can view lists of popular, recent, and top rated extensions as well as Google's featured picks -- but when you click through to those pages you still wind up with a multi-page dump of extensions with no sorting or filtering options.

So how about it, Google? Can we get a cleanup on aisle five?
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Please, Google, I'm begging: tidy up the Chrome Extensions Gallery! originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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