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According to Chrome help (http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...), 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!

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Confused at why no-encryption would even be an option for this data.

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

Thanks. It's now sitting in the Sync team's queue.

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.

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.

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