Firefox GPU sandboxing and slow startup

Discussion in 'Sandboxie (SBIE Open Source) Plus & Classic' started by Bellzemos, Feb 18, 2023.

  1. Bellzemos

    Bellzemos Registered Member

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    Hi, maybe this will come in handy to someone else too. After updating Firefox to v110.0, it's startup took way longer than before when running sandboxed.

    I fixed it by disabling the Firefox GPU sandboxing feature which is enabled in v110.0 by going to abuout:config and setting security.sandbox.gpu.level from 1 to 0.
     
  2. Mr.X

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    Or draw @DavidXanatos 's attention to take a look into this issue.
     
  3. plat

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    I have an old discrete gpu and was concerned about this setting interacting with Sandboxie but I tried it with the values set to "1"--gpu sandbox enabled and "0"--disabled in Firefox about:support. With it set on "1" (enabled) it was maybe the better part of a second later to open? So this sandbox feature doesn't really affect everyone, it seems. Thank goodness!

    To change the value, you have to go into about:config and you can type in "gpu"--the sandbox setting is near the bottom of the list. :) Here, I keep it enabled until something blows.
     
  4. Brummelchen

    Brummelchen Registered Member

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    disabling this feature lowers your security, weather its used or not.

    and yes, firefox starts here within same times as before. maybe another update is the culprit.
     
  5. busy

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  6. DavidXanatos

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    please try build 1.8.0 once its out it has improvements for browser compatibility which may help also here.
     
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