He has stated on his website,Detectify Labsthat he exploited a vulnerability in HTTPS Everywhere.

After some hours of analysis I managed to disable it by just viewing a HTML page.

In fact, this didnt only work on the HTTPS Everywhere extension, but all Chrome extensions I tested!

Chrome vulnerability can be exploited to disable extensions without any user interaction

This build contains a number of bug fixes and security updates, a partial list of which is availablehere.

However, older versions of Chrome may still be vulnerable to this exploit.

Crashed/disabled chrome extension

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source: www.techworm.net