Google has just released the Google Browser Sync extension for Firefox. This extension allows you to save your bookmarks, history and passwords on Google servers, effectively giving you a 'roaming profile,' which you can sync on any computer running Firefox (and the extension, of course). I personally will not bother with the extension. I already have the GBookmarks extensions which allows me to use my google bookmarks on any firefox browser, and that's good enough. I'd prefer to not put up with the delayed load time. FireFox takes long enough already!!!
This showed up in our company network today and we just banned it for security reasons. I don't like the idea of copying all my passwords to a google server, but if this is not a problem the software is probably fine.
tonyinabox is right, although I wouldn't laugh about this. With personalised search, writely, spreadsheet, calendar, mail, maps and bookmarks Google is buildung up an enormous amount of data about a single person (all connected with Google Accounts). The release of Google Analytics make this even worse. Now they have a tracking pixel on some of the biggest websites out there and can connect this to your profile.