Sandboxie Support

No IE History in Sandbox

2013-08-13T03:31:10-04:00

This change is included in version 4.05.05.

Statistics: Posted by tzuk — Tue Aug 13, 2013 3:31 am

No IE History in Sandbox

2013-08-09T15:02:39-04:00

Thanks tzuk, that seems to have done the trick

Statistics: Posted by doveman — Fri Aug 09, 2013 3:02 pm

No IE History in Sandbox

2013-08-08T08:39:04-04:00

Oh. I thought we were talking about the drop down that appears below
the address bar when you click the small down arrow near the Refresh (F5) icon.

Try this please:

Open Sandbox Settings > Resource Access > File Access > Direct Access,
click Edit/Add and paste:
|%Local AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\

(Make sure to copy the pipe character ( | ) at the beginning.)

* * *

How do you make the history pane actually go to the web site?
Clicking on it doesn't seem to do anything.

Edit: Oh, I figured it out... There's a difference between the
history group title, and the actual web pages below it.

Statistics: Posted by tzuk — Thu Aug 08, 2013 8:39 am

No IE History in Sandbox

2013-08-08T08:01:29-04:00

Thanks for testing.

I've updated to 4.05.04 and have both those options ticked. The cookies option has added a path under Direct Access to %Local Appdata%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DOMStore\* but the bookmark and history database option doesn't appear to add anything.

Anyway, I still have no history at all when running IE10 sandboxed, with it just showing Search History in the dropdown. Outside the Sandbox, it shows View by Date, View by Site, etc and underneath it shows Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Today.

Statistics: Posted by doveman — Thu Aug 08, 2013 8:01 am

No IE History in Sandbox

2013-08-08T07:31:33-04:00

I think that setting from my earlier post might record only the URLs that I enter directly into the address bar.

Looks like I need two settings for full history:

Sandbox Settings > Applications > Web Browser > Internet Explorer >
Allow direct access to Internet Explorer bookmark and history database
Allow direct access to Internet Explorer cookies

That cookie setting was updated recently in 4.05.03 so you should probably get version 4.05.04 before trying this.

It is still not perfect. Web sites visited don't always appear in the history immediately, sometimes only after restarting IE.
And, it looks like history entries can't be deleted in the sandboxed IE.

I think you will have more luck wiith this after switching to a different browser, if that's an option.

Statistics: Posted by tzuk — Thu Aug 08, 2013 7:31 am

No IE History in Sandbox

2013-08-08T03:21:49-04:00

I experimented briefly with IE 10 on 32-bit Windows 8 with this setting:

Sandbox Settings > Applications > Web Browser > Internet Explorer >
Allow direct access to Internet Explorer bookmark and history database

It seems to work as I would expect: Websites I enter into the address bar in a sandboxed IE 10 can
also be seen in IE 10 outside the sandbox. And can still be seen after the contents of the sandbox are deleted.

And if I clear that setting, there is no longer sharing of web site history across the sandbox.

Next I will check in Windows 7 with IE 10.

Statistics: Posted by tzuk — Thu Aug 08, 2013 3:21 am

No IE History in Sandbox

2013-08-07T10:05:03-04:00

Bump! Anyone understand why giving Sandboxie Direct Acess to the folder where the history files are located doesn't get History working in Sandboxed IE10?

Statistics: Posted by doveman — Wed Aug 07, 2013 10:05 am

No IE History in Sandbox

2013-07-31T11:05:19-04:00

Well giving Direct Access to %Local AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\WebCache\ doesn't make the History available in the Sandbox for some reason.

I can delete everything in that folder except for

V01.log
WebCacheV01.dat
WebCacheV01.tmp

which it tells me are open in "Host Process for Windows Tasks" so maybe that's a clue as to why it's not working in Sandboxie.

Statistics: Posted by doveman — Wed Jul 31, 2013 11:05 am

No IE History in Sandbox

2013-07-30T13:37:47-04:00

Hmm, now I don't even have Favourites in Sandboxed IE. Not sure if I did have before to be honest as I don't know if I checked. Running 4.04 on Windows 7 x64.

EDIT: On my other PC, also running Win 7 x64 Ultimate but with v4.05.02, Favourites do work, although it took a long while for the menu bar (File, Edit, View, etc) to stop being greyed out and become accessible. The Favourites bar did appear straight away and could be clicked on though.

EDIT2: Updated to 4.05.02 but it turned out that I needed to disable Drop Rights for Favourites to appear in the Sandboxe IE10.

Statistics: Posted by doveman — Tue Jul 30, 2013 1:37 pm

No IE History in Sandbox

2013-07-30T13:23:44-04:00

Not sure what the big deal is. Why wouldn't it work just allowing Direct Access to C:\Users\[User Profile]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WebCache\WebCacheV24.dat ?

Statistics: Posted by doveman — Tue Jul 30, 2013 1:23 pm

No IE History in Sandbox

2013-07-26T17:46:27-04:00

I wouldn't hold my breath while waiting for a solution:

http://blog.nirsoft.net/2012/12/08/a-fe ... plorer-10/

http://blog.nirsoft.net/2013/05/02/impr ... plorer-10/

Statistics: Posted by Guest10 — Fri Jul 26, 2013 5:46 pm

No IE History in Sandbox

2013-07-26T11:24:44-04:00

I presumed it should work and it was just me that was having problems as there's a

"Allow direct access to IE bookmark and history database"

in Sandbox Settings > Applications > Web Browser > Internet Explorer.

Surely the history can only be stored in a folder/file or in the registry key though and Sandboxie can be given Direct Access to either, so it should just be a matter of identifying where IE stores it's history.

It's quite a problem if it can't be made to work as I've found people get a bit annoyed when they go to their history to open something they had opened they day before, only for it to be empty and I have to explain to them that it's because it's running in the Sandbox that it's not working. I've had to just let them run without Sandboxie for now and hope their anti-virus protects them.

Statistics: Posted by doveman — Fri Jul 26, 2013 11:24 am

No IE History in Sandbox

2013-07-26T03:26:10-04:00

I am not sure this can be made to work. Try experimenting with the direct access settings in
Sandbox Settings > Applications > Web Browser > Internet Explorer

Statistics: Posted by tzuk — Fri Jul 26, 2013 3:26 am

No IE History in Sandbox

2013-07-25T16:42:58-04:00

Same Problem: No History in Sandbox

W7, 32 bit

Thanks Richard

Statistics: Posted by richardk — Thu Jul 25, 2013 4:42 pm

No IE History in Sandbox

2013-07-24T14:14:40-04:00

bump

Statistics: Posted by doveman — Wed Jul 24, 2013 2:14 pm