After installing firefox 4 RC1 sandboxie does not start

John7 · Post by **John7** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:14 am

After installing firefox 4 RC1 sandboxie does not work well. Sometimes it starts and sometimes not. When it works starts with a delay. I tried and the stable version and the latest beta with the same results. My OS is windows 7 x64.
Anyone with the same problem ?

SnDPhoenix · Post by **SnDPhoenix** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:35 am

Hmm, why would Firefox 4 RC interfere with Sandboxie's performance? Do you mean Firefox 4 RC 1 doesn't operate well in Sandboxie, that'd make more sense.

But yeah, I haven't tried installing it unsandboxed yet since I don't want it interfering with my stable Firefox v3.6.x but I installed Fx 4 RC1 inside Sandboxie v3.53.06 and haven't noticed any problems with it on Windows 7 x64 myself.

John7 · Post by **John7** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 12:43 pm

I tried again. Firefox 3,16 works ok under sandboxie. The same internet explorer. Maybe it's a problem of FF RC.

tzuk · Post by **tzuk** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 12:53 pm

Did you delete the contents of the sandbox after installing Firefox 4 ?

John7 · Post by **John7** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 1:19 pm

Yes i did it.

SnDPhoenix · Post by **SnDPhoenix** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 5:48 pm

How about creating a new sandbox so you can start with default settings, don't change anything and try running Firefox 4 RC1 again.

John7 · Post by **John7** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 6:23 pm

The same thing happens. I thing it's firefox fault, not sandboxie.

Mike · Post by **Mike** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:00 pm

John7 wrote:Sometimes it starts and sometimes not. When it works starts with a delay.

When Firefox 4 does load sandboxed, can you check your Extensions tab in the Add-ons Manager to see if all your extensions are working?

I remember that when my Firefox 4 kept nuking Adblock Plus in the sandbox, it would take a while to start.

Mike · Post by **Mike** » Tue Mar 15, 2011 5:23 pm

Hmm, ok. Just tried this really quick with a default sandbox and 3.53.07. Firefox RC1 doesn't start at all for me when installed sandboxed on Windows 7 x64 - I can't even run a firefox -P to create a new profile:

WerFault.exe wrote:Firefox has stopped working

A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Please close the program.

On Windows 7 x86, there's no problem. Like SnD, I haven't tried installing FF unsandboxed.

SnDPhoenix · Post by **SnDPhoenix** » Tue Mar 15, 2011 5:35 pm

Hey, wth? After reading the new posts and threads, I just tried installing Firefox 4 RC 1 into a fresh sandbox in 3.53.07 x64 and it crashed upon launching!

Mike · Post by **Mike** » Tue Mar 15, 2011 5:39 pm

Yeah, can't do firefox.exe -safe-mode either.

UPDATE: I think it's throwing pretty early, before loading profiles, since there's no %AppData%\Mozilla folder created in the sandbox.

Bumblebee · Post by **Bumblebee** » Tue Mar 15, 2011 6:01 pm

Confirming that Firefox 4 RC1 is not starting in the Sandbox (3.53.07) at all.

Outside the sandbox it starts normal.

With 3.53.06 it started once in a while - I could not see a pattern.

Bernie

wraithdu · Post by **wraithdu** » Tue Mar 15, 2011 7:11 pm

Yep, same problem for me. I have FF4 RC1 installed outside the sandbox. It's been running in 3.53.06 for quite some time without issue. I updated to .07, totally wiped all the sandboxes, and now it won't start at all. In Sandboxie Control I can see firefox.exe start, but RpcSs and DcomLaunch don't even attempt to start. Also, nothing shows up in the Resource Access Monitor... I mean nothing at all.

Followup:
I dropped back to .06 and all is right in the world.

SnDPhoenix · Post by **SnDPhoenix** » Tue Mar 15, 2011 7:22 pm

Bumblebee wrote:With 3.53.06 it started once in a while - I could not see a pattern.

wraithdu wrote:It's been running in 3.53.06 for quite some time without issue.

Yeah, I didn't test it extensively, but when I tried reproducing this earlier I was running v3.53.06 and the few times I launched Fx4 I didn't notice any issues either, thats why I originally thought there was no issue with Fx4 RC1 in x64 Sandboxie.
Reading these posts, it's obvious this problem is exclusive to v3.53.07 only.

BTW, just to clarify, in case it matters (since I didn't mention this beforehand), I am running Windows 7 x64 with SP1.
I didn't install SP1, instead I used the official "Windows 7 with SP1" image from MSDN and installed fresh (about a week ago).

tzuk · Post by **tzuk** » Tue Mar 15, 2011 9:31 pm

Sorry about this problem. Version 3.53.07a (64-bit) should fix it.

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