Earlier today I came across an article severely complementing & admiring Google Chrome. Specifically, its web store that’s filled with 140,000 open sourced extensions, as well as 40,000 themes, with the top 17 most popular extensions all being downloaded 10M times!

It wouldn't surprise me if the article was really just an ad pushing the pro-google agenda. Regardless, I was helplessly impressed by the reading & as soon as I had some down time I visited the Chrome Web Store. (If it was an ad campaign, it worked)

But, while browsing the Chrome Web Store Extensions I have been unsuccessful in my ability to refine the displayed extensions in any style further than the 13 general categories provided on the main page. The only additional search classification I know of is the ability to sort the store's displayed extensions by their current review score of 1-5 stars. Yet, this was only presented to me after using the "search box”. And since I'm not actually looking for anything in particular, just a newfound desire to expand my library of five extensions I've been using for years, I have no need for the search bar.

I hope this dilemma is my own doing, for as of right now, I really don’t think there’s capability to curate any of the results from the meisley 13 categories.

How can Chrome's prestigious web store be labeled as leagues superior compared to Mozilla add-ons, Opera Add-ons, Addoncrop, Microsoft Edge Add-ons, and SideProjects? Unless what I read was fake, I’m to believe our web store is tech-ahead of anyone else. But, you can’t even sort by most downloads, newest, oldest, most reviews, file size? Anything? All they give you are their own “top picks” and in the next section, “more recommendations”. The family owned small italian deli near me has a has a more advanced website search index for their 35 choices, let alone 140,000 ...

There's probably an extension exactly made for this, but now I feel like a boomer & getting off the internet for the night.