Q: "Report to Apple" dialog absent: how do I generate reports?

Every-5-min kernel panics in 10.8.6 are not attended by "send report to Apple" dialogs, but (eventually, after a gamut of tests & tries) the "...because of a problem... Reopen" box. Is the report to Apple option still presented, in others' experience? 

I used to nsvigate these situations w/relative ease, but lost my (cranial) task memory to trauma, so need basic pointers: should I cobble together data from the Console system mssgs and hardware profile to plot my troubleshooting?  In the recent past, I was able to launch activity monitor before a panic snafued this machine, and 99/100 of those slowdowns showed Safari web content as the culprit.  There are no slowdowns, now, and I'm not certain if Safari's running or not in these otherwise v regular episodes... So it's not really worth mention.  Recent personal history suggests a malicious / malformed  network packet is as likely as any organic or random or other-mishap: how do I narrow in on and eliminate such a beast?

MBP mid-2012, 10.8.6, problem occurs w/o any devices connected.

Have had intermittent, but significant, MagSafe failures: attached, unlit, not charging. Not solved by swapping out MagSafe. Prior (mid 2010) machine bricked (dented, cracked, milkshake(?)sodden) upon (deluge of similar, that very day) logic board intermittent complaints, by e'ville geniuses. But I hear less-local service is more responsive.

Report to Apple: still a thing?

Best way to generate a diagnostics report, w/o that dialog?

Solution/weed out of bad packets?  Or am I looking at reinstall, restore, rinse, repeat?