A month ago I launched Image Harvest — a privacy-first Chrome extension that extracts and batch-downloads images from any webpage, including the ones most downloaders miss: CSS backgrounds, lazy-loaded sources, Shadow DOM content, and same-origin iframes.

The response was encouraging. v1.0.2 is the first feature update, focused on three things: going global, lowering the Pro barrier, and addressing the most-requested productivity feature.

🌍 5 Languages — Your Browser, Your Language

The biggest engineering investment in this release was full internationalization. Image Harvest now ships with 5 language packs:

English (en)

Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)

Traditional Chinese (zh_TW)

Japanese (ja)

Spanish (es)

Every string in the extension — sidebar, popup, settings, collections, reverse search page, toasts, modals, buttons, forms — goes through the standard chrome.i18n + _locales/<lang>/messages.json pipeline. The UI auto-switches based on your browser's language setting.…