[goblin89]

> PanicMode is ridiculously simple extension. Once activated, it will swap HTTP for HTTPS without leaking even a single packet. Not even pre-flight requests are spared.

Sounds pretty cool and useful to me. As it tends to happen, though, all promises of additional security a Google Chrome extension makes are invalidated by a single notice—

> Panic Mode can read and change all your data on the websites you visit

As a side note, I noticed that lately my sensitivity to these kinds of threats has come down significantly due to multitude of useful extensions and apps requiring ridiculous permissions. Seems like a dangerous trend: not knowing that an app is going to do sneakily collect your data is one thing; knowingly and willingly grant every little extension wildcard access time after time is quite another. I was very happy to ditch Android because of that. Perhaps I’m too paranoid, of course.