After installing firefox 4 RC1 sandboxie does not start

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After installing firefox 4 RC1 sandboxie does not start

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 ?

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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. :lol:
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. :shock:

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After installing firefox 4 RC1 sandboxie does not start

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.

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

Did you delete the contents of the sandbox after installing Firefox 4 ?
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Post by John7 » Mon Mar 14, 2011 1:19 pm

Yes i did it.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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! :o
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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). ;)

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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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