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Please, Google, I'm begging: tidy up the Chrome Extensions 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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Subscribe to commentsOleMar 18th 2010 2:30PM
Where is the problem? It´s an awesome time waster searching the best chromextentions. And i know, you realy love wasting your time ;-)
Sometimes google seep behind the wall - lol - wtf is taxonomy?
saudrapsmannMar 18th 2010 4:08PM
Speaking as a theme developer for Chrome I completely agree, and I'd be more than willing to back and add tags to my themes.
CharlesMar 18th 2010 7:07PM
It sure would be helpful if google could figure out categories and tags. It seems they do this more often than not. Good extensions are just going to get lost over time and chrome users will have to spend hours finding the decent ones among the "this is my first extension" extensions. . . . amazing that an internet search "giant" can't figure out how to setup an extensions gallery for easy filtering lmao. . .
Yes, mozilla's addons gallery is a dream to sift through compared to google's!!! Search isn't everything!
Couldn't agree with your article more! I hope google sees this and realizes that search is just one way to "filter" and that they need to take advantage of the other filtering techniques available.
SteveMar 19th 2010 2:01PM
It is by far the worst. You think Google of all places would have a better way of finding stuff.