Sandboxed browser
Author: h | 2025-04-24
In this section on browser sandbox, we discuss the different types of sandboxing. Sandboxing is divided into three categories. Application Sandboxing; Browser Sandboxing;
None of the browsers work in Sandbox - Defense / Sandbox
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. That's not a switch for sbie. That's a switch for thinderbird. Add it to "c:\program files\testdir/thunderbird.exe" --disable-gpu-sandbox, as an example. Did you manage to get Brave working? I am having the same "Aw Snap" message after updating Brave. Thanks for the update. And BTW, if you have the time perhaps you can look into a certain problem, turns out that anti-loggers can't protect sandboxed browsers. SpyShelter, KeyScrambler and GhostPress all have problems, seems like they can't ''see'' sandboxed applications and thus can't protect. So perhaps they need ''interprocess communications access'' to sandboxed processes. henryg1 Registered Member Joined: Jun 14, 2020 Posts: 451 Location: uk Sadly, doesn't work for me. Looks like SBIE is having increasing compatibility problems - add to Office 365 which won't run under SBIE I don't know about the other softs you mention, but I am having no problems with Keyscrambler in any of my Chromium browsers or with Firefox. Using Sandboxie Classic 5.49.7, Keyscrambler Personal 3.15.0.0 and all latest stable versions of browsers. Version 90.x of Brave and Vivaldi are borked on all my machines with Sandboxie atm, and also Chrome on my machine with 11th gen processors (likely due to this). Nothing to do with Keyscrambler though. If the browser works with Sandboxie, then for me Keyscrambler does too, in other words. I think there is an option in Sandboxie to allow Sandboxie to work with Keyscarmbler. If you go to tools >software compatibility in Sandboxie control, you should see Keyscrambler listed with a + by it. If it's not there you may have to add it (not sure how to do that though - someone else might know). Some processes In this section on browser sandbox, we discuss the different types of sandboxing. Sandboxing is divided into three categories. Application Sandboxing; Browser Sandboxing; In this section on browser sandbox, we discuss the different types of sandboxing. Sandboxing is divided into three categories. Application Sandboxing; Browser Sandboxing; You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. ahahahaah Registered Member Joined: Feb 4, 2020 Posts: 22 Location: ok hello,"sound pilot" is a program that makes sound for each key pressed on the keyboard. (if you dont know it: )but when a sandboxed window has the focus (firefox, notepad etc...) it is as if it blocks 'sound pilot' because there is no sound at all when i press on the keyboard.when the sandboxed window has not the focus, (because i clic on a non-sandboxed window), the program can work again and the sounds are played.i dont know if i am clear loldo you know how to fix the problem? thanks Hi ahaha. Probably you need settings to enable Sandboxie and Sound pilot to communicate with each other. Without this settings, SP will not work with SBIE. Also keep in mind, that even if this settings were available, SBIE and SP might no be compatible with each other.Bo ahahahaah Registered Member Joined: Feb 4, 2020 Posts: 22 Location: ok i don't understand when you say "even if this settings were available". sandboxie can't be set to "accept" this program? "might no be compatible"You should start from here ( and then post resource log.That was the normal procedure when Ronen used to support the software. ahahahaah Registered Member Joined: Feb 4, 2020 Posts: 22 Location: ok In the sandboxie control i've checked the "compatibility with otherComments
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. That's not a switch for sbie. That's a switch for thinderbird. Add it to "c:\program files\testdir/thunderbird.exe" --disable-gpu-sandbox, as an example. Did you manage to get Brave working? I am having the same "Aw Snap" message after updating Brave. Thanks for the update. And BTW, if you have the time perhaps you can look into a certain problem, turns out that anti-loggers can't protect sandboxed browsers. SpyShelter, KeyScrambler and GhostPress all have problems, seems like they can't ''see'' sandboxed applications and thus can't protect. So perhaps they need ''interprocess communications access'' to sandboxed processes. henryg1 Registered Member Joined: Jun 14, 2020 Posts: 451 Location: uk Sadly, doesn't work for me. Looks like SBIE is having increasing compatibility problems - add to Office 365 which won't run under SBIE I don't know about the other softs you mention, but I am having no problems with Keyscrambler in any of my Chromium browsers or with Firefox. Using Sandboxie Classic 5.49.7, Keyscrambler Personal 3.15.0.0 and all latest stable versions of browsers. Version 90.x of Brave and Vivaldi are borked on all my machines with Sandboxie atm, and also Chrome on my machine with 11th gen processors (likely due to this). Nothing to do with Keyscrambler though. If the browser works with Sandboxie, then for me Keyscrambler does too, in other words. I think there is an option in Sandboxie to allow Sandboxie to work with Keyscarmbler. If you go to tools >software compatibility in Sandboxie control, you should see Keyscrambler listed with a + by it. If it's not there you may have to add it (not sure how to do that though - someone else might know). Some processes
2025-04-04You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. ahahahaah Registered Member Joined: Feb 4, 2020 Posts: 22 Location: ok hello,"sound pilot" is a program that makes sound for each key pressed on the keyboard. (if you dont know it: )but when a sandboxed window has the focus (firefox, notepad etc...) it is as if it blocks 'sound pilot' because there is no sound at all when i press on the keyboard.when the sandboxed window has not the focus, (because i clic on a non-sandboxed window), the program can work again and the sounds are played.i dont know if i am clear loldo you know how to fix the problem? thanks Hi ahaha. Probably you need settings to enable Sandboxie and Sound pilot to communicate with each other. Without this settings, SP will not work with SBIE. Also keep in mind, that even if this settings were available, SBIE and SP might no be compatible with each other.Bo ahahahaah Registered Member Joined: Feb 4, 2020 Posts: 22 Location: ok i don't understand when you say "even if this settings were available". sandboxie can't be set to "accept" this program? "might no be compatible"You should start from here ( and then post resource log.That was the normal procedure when Ronen used to support the software. ahahahaah Registered Member Joined: Feb 4, 2020 Posts: 22 Location: ok In the sandboxie control i've checked the "compatibility with other
2025-04-18Behalf of the sandboxed process. In Chromium, the privileged process is usually the browser process.Doesn't Vista have similar functionality?Yes. It's called integrity levels (ILs). The sandbox detects Vista and uses integrity levels, as well. The main difference is that the sandbox also works well under Windows XP. The only application that we are aware of that uses ILs is Internet Explorer 7. In other words, leveraging the new Vista security features is one of the things that the sandbox library does for you.This is very neat. Can I use the sandbox in my own programs?Yes. The sandbox does not have any hard dependencies on the Chromium browser and was designed to be used with other Internet-facing applications. The main hurdle is that you have to split your application into at least two interacting processes. One of the processes is privileged and does I/O and interacts with the user; the other is not privileged at all and does untrusted data processing.Isn't that a lot of work?Possibly. But it‘s worth the trouble, especially if your application processes arbitrary untrusted data. Any buffer overflow or format decoding flaw that your code might have won’t automatically result in malicious code compromising the whole computer. The sandbox is not a security silver bullet, but it is a strong last defense against nasty exploits.Should I be aware of any gotchas?Well, the main thing to keep in mind is that you should only sandbox code that you fully control or that you fully understand. Sandboxing third-party code can be very difficult. For example, you might not be aware of third-party code's need to create temporary files or display warning dialogs; these operations will not succeed unless you explicitly allow them. Furthermore, third-party components could get updated on the end-user machine with new behaviors that you did not anticipate.How about COM, Winsock, or DirectX — can I use them?For the most part, no. We recommend against using them before lock-down. Once a sandboxed process is locked down, use of Winsock, COM, or DirectX will either malfunction or outright fail.What do you mean by before lock-down? Is the sandboxed process not locked down from the start?No, the sandboxed process does not start fully secured. The sandbox takes effect once the process makes a call to the sandbox method LowerToken(). This allows for a period during process startup when the sandboxed process can freely get hold of critical resources, load
2025-04-24SharePoint, Azure Functions, and Visual Studio (Part 2) “In old-school SharePoint, if you wanted to run some custom code in a web part, workflow, form, or event handler, you wrote either a sandboxed or a farm solution. Neither of these are supported in SharePoint Online. So what are developers supposed to do when they need to run some code somewhere other than the web browser? How can they run code in the background, elevate permissions, or fill gaps in the “out of the box” configuration options?” That paragraph opens a blog post series by Bob German entitled Calling SharePoint CSOM from Azure Functions. Read more Transitioning off InfoPath Forms, try-out these steps with StratusForms Recently I wrote a blog post urging all of you fine folks to stop creating new forms in InfoPath. It’s time to start taking the InfoPath end of life seriously and start looking at what the future of your forms in SharePoint looks like. Read more SharePoint, Azure Functions, and Visual Studio (Part 1) “In old-school SharePoint, if you wanted to run some custom code in a web part, workflow, form, or event handler, you wrote either a sandboxed or a farm solution. Neither of these are supported in SharePoint Online. So what are developers supposed to do when they need to run some code somewhere other than the web browser? How can they run code in the background, elevate permissions, or fill gaps in the “out of the box” configuration options?” That paragraph opens a
2025-04-24Need localhost communication ports, in general its a 127.0.0.1: And that will work within sandboxie, in+out, if you haven't locked it. Vivaldi is running here, but admin rights are mandatory. Since Sbie is a free tool it would be unbecoming to make any demands and I have no intention of doing so.However, given the present situation of increasing incompatibility observed with updated browsers, it would be nice to hear from @DavidXanatos about the current "state of play" and if he already had time and a chance of looking into that matter or even could provide us with a realistic estimate, how complicated these problems are and until when a fix could be expected.We understand that a bread-winning daytime-job has absolute priority - but still, any info about this serious "hobby-activity" would be highly appreciated. LOL thanks, totally forgot about this feature probably because I never had to use it before. You're right, when this feature is enabled, KeyScrambler works just fine. So it would be cool if David Xanatos could also make new compatibility settings for GhostPress and SpyShelter.Yes correct, the newest Vivaldi als doesn't work sandboxed anymore on both Sandboxie 5.33 and 5.45, I'm sure this will be fixed. For me it's not a big problem because I have no problems with using older versions of browsers. For me, Edge 91 and Chrome 91 works sandboxed. I do not use Vivaldi.Windows 21H1 ProSandboxie Classic 5.49.7 Last edited: May 30, 2021 Vivaldi is the culprit, not sandboxie Chromium is working either. But i dont use any keyscrambler, ghoster nor password tool which may need to inject a module. Special Registered Member Joined: Mar 23, 2016 Posts: 454 Location: . Please support "MY" browser that has a 0.001% market share! Would you mind telling us EXACTLY WHICH super-exotic browser you are
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