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Google Browser Sync extension clones Firefox settings (Linux.com)Google Browser Sync extension clones Firefox settings (Linux.com)Posted Jun 19, 2007 6:55 UTC (Tue) by cevin666 (subscriber, #960)Parent article: Google Browser Sync extension clones Firefox settings (Linux.com)
Okay, I can just see me giving Google a look at my bookmarks. They save my searches anyway. But saved passwords? It's risky enough to trust ones own harddrive with saved passwords but Google? Thats even worse than the proverbial postit on the screen.
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Google Browser Sync extension clones Firefox settings (Linux.com) Posted Jun 19, 2007 8:09 UTC (Tue) by Los__D (subscriber, #15263) [Link] Can't you choose what you want to store?
Google Browser Sync extension clones Firefox settings (Linux.com) Posted Jun 19, 2007 9:28 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] If they're encrypted strongly enough that should be fine: but what `strongly enough' means when you have the computing power of the google cluster is another matter.
Google Browser Sync extension clones Firefox settings (Linux.com) Posted Jun 22, 2007 20:22 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link] I believe the OP's point is that he doesn't trust Google. So a promise from Google to encrypt the data is worthless.
Google Browser Sync extension clones Firefox settings (Linux.com) Posted Jun 19, 2007 9:33 UTC (Tue) by jfj (guest, #37917) [Link] From the article it seems that you can encrypt what's stored in sync.
However, note that by using sync you are doing google a very big favor. Google will give higher page-rank to user bookmarks and will be able to refine the search to give better results. So this makes google a better search engine. A different search engine that starts now may index the entire internet, but it's the user feedback (either through past searches or sync, etc) that give google the advantage. User's bookmarks is gold!
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