I work for Google, on Google Chrome extensions.<p>The change to the gallery was actually made awhile ago, and discussed here:<p><a href="http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-extensions/browse_thread/thread/e8064192990c8f9e" rel="nofollow">http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-exten...</a><p>mmastrac is correct. We always wanted the front page to work this way, we just didn't get to it in time for ship day.<p>The idea is to spread the wealth a bit on the front page. Otherwise the lead the frontrunners have becomes difficult to challenge.