Yahoo Mail Desktop Icon

[yabbadoo]

I have recently placed a Yahoo Mail icon on my desktop. It works fine by opening my Firefox browser at the Yahoo mail page, but it is not sandboxed.

Most other desktop icons can be opened sandboxed by right clicking the icon and selecting "Run sandboxed", but not this Yahoo icon.

Question ?
How can I configure Sandboxie to make my Yahoo desktop icon open Firefox at the Yahoo Mail page fully sandboxed ?

I am using Windows XP Home with default browser Firefox 11, which I always open with the Sandboxie desktop icon. This works OK, why not the Yahoo icon ?

[Guest10]

What you made is a .URL shortcut. It will open that page using your default browser, but the only way to have it open sandboxed is if you force the browser to run sandboxed (registered version of Sandboxie required).

You could create a normal .LNK shortcut to 'firefox.exe', modify the right-click Properties > Target line to add an Internet address to the end of the line, then right-click it to "Run Sandboxed".
(Path shown is for XP)
"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"
becomes:
"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" www.sandboxie.com

Or, let Sandboxie Control create one that will run Firefox sandboxed and then modify that shortcut to add an Internet address to the end of its Properties > Target line.
Sandboxie Control > Configure > Windows Shell Integration
"Add shortcut icons" button.
Pick a sandbox and then pick Firefox from the "Programs" or "All Files and Folders" menu.
Modify the shortcut to add the Internet address to the end of the Properties > Target line, as above.
Double-click it to run sandboxed and open that Internet address.

[yabbadoo]

What you made is a .URL shortcut. It will open that page using your default browser, but the only way to have it open sandboxed is if you force the browser to run sandboxed (registered version of Sandboxie required).

You could create a normal .LNK shortcut to 'firefox.exe', modify the right-click Properties > Target line to add an Internet address to the end of the line, then right-click it to "Run Sandboxed".
(Path shown is for XP)
"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"
becomes:
"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" www.sandboxie.com

Or, let Sandboxie Control create one that will run Firefox sandboxed and then modify that shortcut to add an Internet address to the end of its Properties > Target line.
Sandboxie Control > Configure > Windows Shell Integration
"Add shortcut icons" button.
Pick a sandbox and then pick Firefox from the "Programs" or "All Files and Folders" menu.
Modify the shortcut to add the Internet address to the end of the Properties > Target line, as above.
Double-click it to run sandboxed and open that Internet address.

Dear Paul, that is a brilliant and explicit reply and I am so grateful for your trouble.

No big deal for me as when I open Firefox under normal procedure through Sandboxie, Yahoo is then automatically sandboxed. The desktop icon is useful as a quick alternative and I will try your proposals.

I just wondered why the "Run sandboxed" never applied to this icon as it does to all the others and you have answered it perfectly.

Thank you.

PS - Paul, I have done what you said and configured Sandboxie to replace my icon. I can now right click it and get "Run sandboxed". With an icon path of :-

"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" www.mail.yahoo.com - it then opens Firefox all sandboxed at the login Yahoo mail page.

All done Paul and a million thanks for your help.

I sincerely wish you a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy New Year.