Can you turn Sandboxie on and off …using it for browsing in which security is an issue and not using it for totally safe browsing?
I’m assuming that performance is an issue while sandboxie is in place… if not there would be no reason not to use it continuously.
After installing Sandboxie you will have an icon for a sandboxed browser. There is no toggle, you either run the browser inside the sandbox or not. Of course there is no reason you can’t have a regular browser and sandboxed browser running at the same time.
I haven’t noticed any performance issues with Sandboxie. And it can.be used for any software, not just browsers.
Occasionally you want to do something that makes changes to your computer. You may want to install new software or update old software, you may want to save a recipe you found on the internet, you may want to save a copy of your tax return, you may want to save a bookmark, you may want to download a book or a document, and (most importantly) you may want to save a copy of a brilliant post you read on SDMB. These things can be done, but only through much more indirect and inconvenient means when you are running inside a sandbox.
Get **Avast Pro **which will let you run whatever you want in a sandbox, in addition to being a good anti-virus software.
My experiment with Sandboxie isn’t going so well so I’d like to focus on this suggestion …
In order to understand it better I have some questions:
Assuming this is effective I could set my system up to never remember anything couldn’t I?
I did delete all my history and the results were kind of surprising… although I had to reneter my user name and password in all sites, the latter often came up automatically.
In Firefox my browsing history was gone but when I started to type in a URL I got suggstions for pages that I hadn’t been to in years. Exampl, I typed in amazon and it suggsted a specific page to a specific seller that I bought from two years ago.
My internet explorer browsing history was still there.
Now I’m all confused…
First, Firefox was my default browser and many pages displayed terribly.
The next time I started my computer there was a little improvements but not enough so I changed to Internet Explorer. It was much better as far as display went but then most pages started to load slowly…some never fully loaded. It got worse over a couple of days.
So … I decided to try Firefox again and for the last day it has been working great.