Sandboxie Classic v Sandboxie Plus

Hi @ Wilders

I need some help to divine whether Sandboxie Plus is for me. Many years ago I used what would be now called Sandboxie Classic and I became moderately proficient in using it. I should say I am not a Techie and don't wish to be. So I suppose it could be said I am a "point and shoot" individual.

Recently I had a scare which provoked me to return to sandboxing but I chose Sandboxie Plus this time. I am however finding it somewhat difficult, having forgotten most of what I learned from using the original Sandboxie. In addition the myriad of new features available does not help. At this stage I am not a contributor so a lot of the new features are not available to me.

I decided to write this post after reading David Xanatos's thread on a roadmap for Sandboxie Classic.

I just wonder whether I might be better off with the classic version and would I be really losing out by just opting for simplicity over security?

Appreciate any views members may have.

One final point if I moved back to Classic can I retain my settings from Plus?

Thanks

Terry

 

I would really discourage the use of classic, it lacks really a lot of features at this point.
And the plus UI has since a couple of builds now a Vintage View mode which makes it look and feal like classic.

Especially if you have already forgotten how to use classic, as you say, its a perfect opportunity to get used to the new UI,
it has a huge amount of quality of life improvements:

• It looks much more modern
• It brings new features also to not supporters,

1. like Snapshots,
2. much better file browse panel,
   
3. ability to import/export sandboxed to and from *.7z files

• the important lists are all Searchable with Ctrl+F, also the entire options/setting windows is searchable
• it brings a universal browser compatibility wizard alowing you quickly to create tempaltes for yet unknown browser types (as long as they are chromium or firefox based)
• configurable run menu
• start menu integration of sandboxes

And much more...

 

Also weren’t there a bunch of bugs/issues on the old sandboxie, you fixed on the new one.

 

Hi David & Azure Phoenix

Thanks for your comments.

Terry

 

Well the new sandboxie classic contains all the fixes, so its fine just don't use some old build no mater which flavor.