Main Switch Disable/Enable Sandboxie

[Unknown_User_605]

Hi,
I run Internet Explorer and Firefox as forced programs. I encountered some problems while Firefox updates to the newest version per autoupdate. I tried "Temporarily Disable Forced Programs" and then let Firefox do the update. But the update Process required a restart of Firefox. After the restart Firefox runs sandboxed and a part of the update was made in the sandbox Also I had some Problems with the install of IE7 with Internet Explorer as forced programs and using "Temporarily Disable Forced Programs".

My idea is besides a temporarily switch a main Switch to Disable/Enable the complete Sandboxie. The Sandboxie symbol can be marked with a red X.

[tzuk]

After the restart Firefox runs sandboxed and a part of the update was made in the sandbox

I just had the same experience. But then you just select Temporarily Disable Force Programs and re-launch Firefox ... and it keeps going from the last place the update process stopped.

(Because anything after that occurred in the sandbox.)

Amazing!

Anyway--if you remove Firefox.exe from the list of forced programs you get the same result, and without the need for another switch.

[Unknown_User_458]

Yes you can try to temporarily disable forced programs but you have to go round this loop a few times unless you're very quick. It would be easier to have a switch rather than a temporary disable.

If this is a lot of trouble could you increase your definition of temporary? I think I read somewhere it is 10 seconds - this isn't long enough and in fact in practice it often seems much shorter than this. I agree that if it's longer you would need to wait sometimes for this to expire - hence the need for a toggle rather than a temporary suspension.

Still not much to grumble about - a great program thanks.

[OwenBurnett]

how about making the "temporarily disable" switch ask the user for how long it should be dissabled,
for 1 action
for 1 minute
for 10 minutes
for ever (untill you uncheck the dissable obtion manualy)

Owen

[tzuk]

If this is a lot of trouble could you increase your definition of temporary?

There is a ForceDisableSeconds setting (which I suppose I never got arouond to document) which specifies the number of seconds that Temporarily Disable Forced Programs lasts.

ask the user for how long it should be dissabled,

To simulate this, you can specify ForceDisableSeconds=999 in your configuration. Then toggle it once to temporarily disable, toggle it again when done.

[Guest]

I tried to specify ForceDisableSeconds=999 in sandboxie.ini but it seems not to work.

[tzuk]

The setting goes in the GlobalSettings area of Sandboxie.ini.

Make sure you're using the latest beta, because earlier versions do not preserve this setting when other configuration changes are made.

[Unknown_User_605]

I have upgraded to version 2.80 and added this to sandbox.ini:
[GlobalSettings]
...
ForceDisableSeconds=999
...

I can confirm, that now the switch "Temporarily Disable Forced Programs" works as main switch. Now Upgrading to Firefox 2.0.0.3 was no problem.

Thanks to tzuk