How to keep a google cookie persistent?

If it's not about a problem in the program
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virtualuser
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How to keep a google cookie persistent?

Post by virtualuser » Sun Jan 06, 2013 5:02 am

When I use IE9 to visit google, it creates a blue bar below the menu "come here often? make google your home page". If I say no thanks, it goes away until the sandbox content is deleted, which is quite often since it is set to auto.

If I use IE9 outside of sandboxie, the blue bar also doesn't show up. I think once I answered "no thanks", google creates a cookie to disable the blue bar.

How can I setup sandboxie so that this cookie is always around and not get deleted even when the rest of the sandbox content is deleted?

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Post by Guest10 » Sun Jan 06, 2013 6:36 am

I'm not really familiar with IE9, since it doesn't work with XP, but this sounds like a problem of cookies being saved while in protected mode (not sandboxed), not being available in non-protected mode (sandboxed).

If IE runs in protected mode when not sandboxed, and you save that setting in a cookie, then when Sandboxie runs IE in non-protected mode maybe it can't read the cookie that was set.
Maybe IE's options will allow you to run it in non-protected mode one time, while unsandboxed, and save that cookie.
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I had this information saved, for IE (but not for v10):
In Protected Mode IE writes/reads special Low versions of the cache, TEMP folder, Cookies and History:
Cache: %UserProfile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Low
Temp: %UserProfile%\AppData\Local\Temp\Low
Cookies: %UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies\Low
History: %UserProfile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\History\Low
Low folders may be "hidden" folders.

Protected Mode off:
C:\Users\(user)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies

Sandboxie runs IE with Protected Mode off, and fools IE into thinking that the Protected Mode check box is off.
Paul
Win 10 Home 64-bit (w/admin rights) - Zone Alarm Pro Firewall, MalwareBytes Premium A/V, Cyberfox, Thunderbird
Sandboxie user since March 2007

virtualuser
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Post by virtualuser » Sun Jan 06, 2013 12:14 pm

Guest10 wrote:If IE runs in protected mode when not sandboxed, and you save that setting in a cookie, then when Sandboxie runs IE in non-protected mode maybe it can't read the cookie that was set.
Bingo!
Outside of sandboxie, I turned off IE protected mode, then went to google and say no thanks to the blue bar.
When I go to IE inside sandboxie and visit google, the blue bar no longer pops up.

Thanks for the expert solution.

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