Tag: MESS

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 ...

I've griped about the Chrome Extensions Gallery before. It's a cluttered mess, and finding extensions is much more of a pain in the ass than it should be. Yes, I can search and look at featured and popular extensions, but where are the tags? Where are the categories? Where are the suggestions of similar or related extensions I might want to try? You know, like the way the Firefox add-ons site is ...

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 ...