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Google adds World Cup themes category to Chrome Extensions Gallery, underscores its failings
Good: Google has added a boatload of new World Cup themes to the Chrome Extensions Gallery. Now you can proudly display your nation's colors as a theme on your Chrome browser!
Bad: It's a perfect example of what is wrong with the Chrome Extensions Gallery.
The themes actually appeared late yesterday, though they looked like extension spam to me. There were no screenshots posted. They're not labeled as themes. Their titles, if you browse via the recent extensions link, only show the name of the country. The image you see below is the "detail" page for the England theme.
Bad: It's a perfect example of what is wrong with the Chrome Extensions Gallery.
The themes actually appeared late yesterday, though they looked like extension spam to me. There were no screenshots posted. They're not labeled as themes. Their titles, if you browse via the recent extensions link, only show the name of the country. The image you see below is the "detail" page for the England theme.
Today, at least, there's a new category added to the landing page -- and when you click through the World Cup link the page does announce " Paint your browser in your team colors with Chrome themes." Again, though, it's listed under Sports, Shopping, by Google, Web Development -- which are all about extensions, not themes.
It really is time to give themes their own home. Chrome, after all, doesn't take you to the Extensions Gallery when you choose to get themes via the wrench menu's options page. No, it takes you to the themes site.
So how about it Google? Can we please add a "user created" section next to Themes by Artists and Themes by Google and get them out of the Extensions Gallery once and for all?
Maybe after that we can work on categorized listings and related extensions, but let's take things one step at a time for now...
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Subscribe to commentskojo87Jun 10th 2010 6:17PM
i converted from Firefox to Chrome mostly due to the cleaner look, improved speed and lighter resource use. but the extensions for Chrome totally suck. there aren't many of them, the gallery is poorly organized and its not exactly easy to manage them once you have them installed (compared to Firefox anyway) i don't even try to look for Chrome extensions anymore whereas with Firefox i would browse for new ones every day. come to think of it that probably explains the resource use difference...
mrwussJun 11th 2010 7:14AM
I will agree with all of your points except thebone about managing extensions. Not sure how it is hard to manage to click the extentions link in the menu and then presented with a listing.
Chrome is still early in it's developement life, more extentions will come as the API matures and authors get what they need.
JonnyJun 10th 2010 10:04PM
eghhh, soccer is worse then watching paint dry!
kurtextremJun 11th 2010 9:32AM
http://chromium.googlecode.com/issues/attachment?aid=440992184941752744&name=Screenshot-1.png&token=e7cf4f3792920b5f4ac48297bc02377e&inline=1
laurence - GozoJun 30th 2010 3:31PM
how does one disable a theme without having to go to another site ???
Isn't is possible to remove unwanted stuff --- stuff that was advertised by Google Chrome itself -- with tools from the Chrome browser ????
The world cup themes popped up a few days ago & i installed one.
Now i can't seem to get rid of it. !!!!