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Source?

Are you perhaps thinking of the currently unused "class-A data"?

https://blog.mozilla.org/services/2014/04/30/firefox-syncs-n...

https://blog.mozilla.org/services/2014/02/07/a-better-firefo...

https://github.com/mozilla/fxa-auth-server/wiki/onepw-protoc...

Edit:

From what I can see, client side encryption in Google Chrome appears to be opt-in?