Question???

[MitchE323]

Sooooooooo, I'm toying around in my new sandbox - seeing what I can do and what I can not do, just playing.

I've got IE set as a forced process and I am surfing in the sandbox. I've got the #marks in my title page.

I saved a site in my favorites (which I know are the sandbox favorites), I then decided to change that favorites icon to match other icons I have in the same folder.

I have Sandboxie set to auto delete and it will ask you if you want to recover any saved files. I hit yes, and recovered to the "same folder", which is now my regular favorites.

I then opened IE, again in the sandbox, and the new favorite was there just as it should be........but it had the replaced icon.

How did it get the icon?

Mitch

[SBIE User]

How did it get the icon?

Mitch,

You might want to look at the Wikipedia description of FavIcons at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon . I think that might explain it.

Hope that helps.

SBIE (Happy) User

[MitchE323]

Thanks, I get it now. It was saved as a "favicon" which is part of the web page itself and since Sandboxie can read from the disk, it picked it up and then when I saved it, I saved the favicon as well.

I guess I've had to adjust and tweak so many windows componants over the years that I've forgotten more than I knew in the first place. lol

Thanx for putting me on the right path.

Mitch

[SBIE User]

Mitch,

I once spent several hours searching my hard drive for a favicon, thinking it was hidden in a file like index.dat. Then I did a web search and found that favicons are stored on the web servers remotely.



SBIE (Happy) User

[MitchE323]

But does that also mean that any website can "read" from my disk, while Sandboxie is preventing the "writing" to my disk?

[SBIE User]

But does that also mean that any website can "read" from my disk, while Sandboxie is preventing the "writing" to my disk?

No, it means only that your browser is reading the FavIcon from the remote webserver just the same way it reads the web page content from the remote webserver. Essentially, your browser is just reading an extra item.

There is no reciprocal relationship here, and the remote webserver is not reading your hard drive.

SBIE (Happy) User

[MitchE323]

Thanks very much SBIE