Sort extensions by extension update date

[janderudder]

It's in the title : I could use the possibility to browse installed extensions sorted by installation update date.

I often install a batch of extensions at a time, for a given language, or about a given feature. Some times I find unrelated extensions during the search and install them too.
So I restart the editor with a whole bunch of new extensions, and its behavior may be quite different compared to last reload.

I don't necessarily remember the names of all the newly installed extensions, and after restarting the editor sometimes I wish to go back to the extension read-me to see the how-to again, or just get the extension's name to use its commands.

When you have a lot of extensions installed it may be hard to browse through to find the new ones.
It would be nice to have a way to discriminate the latest installed extensions.

Thank you for this great editor anyway :)

[robertopc]

I want this feature too.

[cacheflow]

I'll take this.

[ramya-rao-a]

We do not store any data around install timestamps. All information we show around extensions are coming from the marketplace. We could use at the timestamps of the directory for the extension, but for every extension update, a new folder is created and the older one is deleted.

So there is no way at the moment to get the install date.

If anyone is really interested in getting a solution for this, they may try it via extensions. You could have an extension that watches the directory where the extensions are stored and keeps list of extensions and the first time they were installed. See https://aka.ms/vscodewritingextensions for getting started with extensions