Google-chrome – How to sort extension in the Chrome Web Store

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The Google Chrome Web Store seems like a disaster to me. I cannot make sense of it.

How can you sort extensions by popularity? By rating? By amount of downloads? By newest? By recently updated?

Am I completely overlooking something?

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/extensions

Best Answer

There isn't much to do, but here's the little things that you can do:

By rating ⁽¹⁾:
- You can filter by the rating - set the low limit of starts for your results.
By recently updated ⁽²⁾:
- Recently updated as stated by Google, we can't know if there's more behind it. I guess (from what I see), that's actually "recently updated popular extensions".
Popularity ⁽³⁾:
- I think the closest would be the Editor's Picks section. Those are usually good and popular apps/extensions, and the fact that they're being picked also boosts them.
Newest:
- Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be possible. Maybe if there's a feed of updates from the Web Store you can get this information from there.
Downloads:
- Not really an option, though I think it can be known (more or less) by the other parameters (rating, featured, editor's picks etc.)

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Edit: 11/01/2018

After nearly 5 years, I'm updating this post for Ubuntu 18.04. I'm currently using Firefox, but the following should be independent of what browser you use.

On GTK3, the ~/.gtkrc-2.0 method no longer works. Instead, edit the ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini and add the following line to the end:

gtk-key-theme-name=Emacs

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