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According to Chrome help (http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=165139&from=165138&rd=1 http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answe

by dchest 15y ago

According to Chrome help (http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=165139&from=165138&rd=1 http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&#38...), only passwords are encrypted, not bookmarks, autofill data, apps, extensions, history, preferences, and themes. Is this still true? Edit: in Chrome 15 (beta) just found an option "Encrypt all synced data". Yay!

mike-cardwell 15y ago
Confused at why no-encryption would even be an option for this data.
- fjarlq 15y ago
  Hmm, this feature seems buggy. I just tried enabling the option and it never finished. Had to kill it. Filed a bug report: http://crbug.com/97939 http://crbug.com/97939
  - mikewest 15y ago
    Thanks. It's now sitting in the Sync team's queue.
codecaine 15y ago
wow, I was assuming that everything is stored encrypted on Googles servers. Would be cool if someone could clarify this, as the explanation in the Google help is a bit vague IMHO.
- zobzu 15y ago
  To my understanding they started providing the option to encrypt only very recently. My take is obviously that it's bad for the company policy to have this stuff encrypted (any regular guy would have had built-in encryption when making such a sync service). But on the other hand it would be pretty bad advertising when Firefox always had full encryption. Providing the option (but not making it mandatory) gives the proper advertising/evangelizing arguments.