The front page of the Chrome extensions gallery was designed to give as many good extensions as possible some of the eyeball share from users landing on the front page. The Chrome gallery team is <i>very</i> interested in a healthy ecosystem, rather than promoting and re-promoting a number of older, most-popular extensions. Showing the top-N extensions all of the time is antithetical to their goals.<p>If you look at the Chrome front page from time-to-time, you'll see that a lot of extensions on there have only a few thousand users, but are really cool extensions. They are doing a pretty good job of surfacing less-popular or newer extensions.<p>Disclaimer: we are a partner extension and showed up in the gallery on the front page for a few days after the initial launch.