There are a lot of confusing comments in here. Maybe I'm in the minority but I use chrome, which seems to default convert to https on any site that supports it,

There are a lot of confusing comments in here. Maybe I'm in the minority but I use chrome, which seems to default convert to https on any site that supports it, and will provide visible warnings when the site doesn't support https. Also man in the middle attacks seem massively overblown. If you are sitting at home on your private network, the likelihood of a man in the middle attack is stunningly small, such that it's completely irrelevant - especially in regards to the likely trivial content being viewed over http.