Browser window album sort order change?

Hi,
do you know if there's any way to change the sort order for albums on the browser window?
I'd like to view the album list for each artist sorted by release date order (as in discography) rather than alphabetically.

Colin,
Change the View option to include Year then click on
the column heading.
that works on the main window, not in the browser window.
No matter what column I click in the main song window, the browser windows remain alphabetically sorted.

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