Sandboxie Support

When I attempt to open torrent files specifically, sandboxie opens a second instance of my torrent program. I would like to ability to tell sanboxie to exclude my torrent program, or others from opening sandboxed, so that I may open a file from a sandboxed window into a non-sandboxed program.

Temp wrote:When I attempt to open torrent files specifically, sandboxie opens a second instance of my torrent program. I would like to ability to tell sanboxie to exclude my torrent program, or others from opening sandboxed, so that I may open a file from a sandboxed window into a non-sandboxed program.

I was actually just thinking of this, after a discussion with a relative. I have set Sandboxie to this relative, so that it opens the e-mail client program sandboxed, but would like, for example to open IE unsandboxed (other measures are in place to prevent infections), specially when entering a website that requires a login. Sandboxie does prevent keylogging inside (if only XYZ app is allowed to communicate with the Internet and run in the sandbox), but it won't stop whatever is outside, so my relative doesn't feel so comfortable with Sandboxie in such situations, and finds annoying having to copy the link, open IE and paste the link.

It could be even a good approach, as an option, to exclude IE (in my example) from opening sandboxed if XYZ website is to be entered; that is, to intercept a link (when the user clicks in it) and if, for example, the link matches, say -www.sandboxie.com/etc, run unsandboxed. Obviously, only the domain would be read (in this case, -www.sandboxie.com).

Someone may enhance this suggestion, as well.


Regards

Temp, your feature has been requested a few times before now, and I know people want to have this option.

_m00nbl00d_01, I'm afraid that what you suggest means I have to develop and maintain plugins/addons for all major browsers, and I'm afraid that is just too much work.

As Tzuk said it has been requested before,does that mean it will be implemented in sandboxie in the
(near) future?

I would be very happy,because I have a same issue as the TS.

thank you for maintaining/updating 'my' sandboxie _O_

It's difficult to say when as I usually give priority to problems/issues over new features, and there is no shortage of problems and issues.

No need for rush,as stability and fixing bugs has priority. With my *near future* comment I didnt mean 'a few
weeks',sorry ... but it is on the feature-list as I understand it now. That's fine!

/cheers
Angelee

Temp wrote:When I attempt to open torrent files specifically, sandboxie opens a second instance of my torrent program. I would like to ability to tell sanboxie to exclude my torrent program, or others from opening sandboxed, so that I may open a file from a sandboxed window into a non-sandboxed program.

If anyone has this problem specifically with uTorrent, here's a workaround.

First, allow your sandboxed browser to save torrents directly to an unsandboxed location, for example your Downloads folder: Then, in your unsandboxed uTorrent, go to Options > Preferences > Directories and set the "Automatically load .torrents from" option. Now, any torrents saved to the Downloads folder will automatically be opened unsandboxed. You can optionally enable "Delete loaded .torrents" to keep your Downloads folder clean.

Thank you!! This was very helpful

I would also very much be interested in this feature if it is worth anything!