So I've been spending way too much time lately downloading images, opening them in another app, resizing, and then re-uploading for this blog project I'm finishing up for a local nonprofit. I need to get about 50 photos done by Friday and my old laptop literally screams every time I open a heavy editor so I was thinking maybe there is a solid Chrome extension that just handles it right in the tab.

My logic was that if I can just right-click and change the dimensions or maybe drag and drop into a popup it would save me like two hours of work. I'm currently torn between two I found in the store. One is called Image Resizer - the one with the simple blue icon - and the other is Smart Resize. I was leaning toward Image Resizer because it looks super lightweight but then I saw a review saying it loses quality on larger JPEGs which is a dealbreaker for me since these need to look decent on mobile.

Smart Resize looks like it has more bells and whistles but I'm worried it's gonna be bloated or try to sell me a subscription after five images and I'm on a strictly zero-dollar budget for this. Has anyone tried both? Or maybe there's a third option I'm missing that lets you batch resize without leaving the browser? I just need something fast and simple that wont crash my browser...