With this release, Sandboxie’s core has been modernized to ensure long-term stability and compatibility with today’s development platforms. We’ve upgraded our build environment to the MSVC 2022 toolset—an unavoidable change now that support for the 2019 runner has been discontinued—and migrated our UI framework from Qt 5 to Qt 6. Together, these updates bring improved compiler optimizations and access to the latest Qt features, but in doing so they require us to discontinue support for Windows 7 and 32-bit operating systems. We understand this may impact some users; if there is sufficient demand, we will explore providing a periodic Extended Support Release (ESR) that maintains compatibility with Windows 7. On the fixes side, this build addresses several noteworthy issues reported in recent weeks: shortcuts now correctly include the full directory path, resolving the incomplete-link problem; binding to a network adapter once again enforces isolation even if the adapter is disabled; file-path resolution no longer fails on paths beginning with a backslash; the UI language bindings have been corrected to honor the installer’s Language ID; the UAC prompt layout has been polished for consistency; and the “Run Un-Sandboxed” option will no longer be ignored when Mark-of-the-Web enforcement is enabled. We appreciate all feedback and bug reports, and hope you enjoy this more robust and future-proof release of Sandboxie. Download: https://github.com/sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie/releases/tag/v1.16.1
Hello David, Just a couple thoughts, first thanks for keeping a Win 7 version going for so long and It's a big reason I have been a supporter since the early days. However change is inevitable and I totally understand. Speaking of supporting; I have been buying the home version every year + encryption pack (past 2 years). Can there be a subscriber renewal deal similar to the personal license you have going? Or maybe a home+encryption pack for 5-10 less. The reason I ask is purchasing stuff across the pond has been terrible with the weak dollar to euro and what cost 65 last year is going to set me back close to 90 this time. How much would it cost to switch over to personal at this stage? I mean your work is worth it, but I just wanted to hear your thinking and I realize we are all losing to inflation.
Has anyone experienced that after upgrading Firefox to 141, they are unable to run it with Sandboxie (ver 1.16.1)?
I am running FF141 and after updating Windows 11 today I cannot run FF in Sandboxie. LibreWolf seems fine.
Unable to run Firefox 141 under Sandboxie 1.15.12 - it was working with Sandboxie 1.15.12 on FF 140. I have not tried the pre-release 1.16.1 but comments above suggest it isn't working with this either. I can open FF 141 under Sandboxie just fine, however I can't navigate to anything or open up a bookmark - it's frozen & stays stuck in "not responding" the moment I try to do anything. EDIT - I now think this may be related to the Windows Update yesterday. (2025-07 Cumulative Update Preview for Windows 11 Version 24H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5062660) (26100.4770)) I have just downgraded to Firefox 139.04, which used to work with Sandboxie, and it produces the same behaviour I described above. Exact same issue as here: https://github.com/sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie/issues/4920 which is still listed as "confirmation pending". Consider this confirmed on 7 laptops in the house which received the above Windows 11 update, all running a mix of FF 140 & 141, & Sandboxie 1.15.12. This is on Firefox non-portable (github thread above states affecting portable as well).
the entry in mozilla's ToS where you technically agreed to having all the data you put through FF to be scraped to train their AI
Question: If I put all these entries into the global rules Template=BlockAccessWMI Template=BlockDNS Template=OpenBluetooth HideFirmwareInfo=y RandomRegUID=y HideDiskSerialNumber=y HideNetworkAdapterMAC=y HideNonSystemProcesses=y ClosePrintSpooler=y CoverBoxedWindows=y do they all apply to every sandbox I have and will make in the future?
Me too! Kiadás Windows 11 Pro Verzió 24H2 Telepítés dátuma 2025. 05. 03. Operációs rendszer buildszáma 26100.4770 Minőség Windows-szolgáltatások élménycsomagja 1000.26100.197.0
Workaround: (Open COM access, reduced isolation!) Code: OpenIpcPath=firefox.exe,\RPC Control\epmapper
Thanks for the workaround but more instructions needed. Have scoured Sandboxie options but cannot see "COM access" anywhere or reduced isolation. Please could you start with where to find in Sandboxie Plus GUI, & if it is editing the ini could you please specify if that is global settings ini or just ini for the sandbox being used with firefox. Step by step would be helpful. Thanks.
fwiw ~ as test: Firefox sbox Resource Access -> IPC -> Add IPC Path Spoiler: related pics Note: Firefox 141.0 call bookmarks okay with my 1.15.12 Firefox sbox sans Code: OpenIpcPath=firefox.exe,\RPC Control\epmapper Note: 2025-07 Cumulative Update Preview for Windows 11 Version 24H2 not installed.
