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Sandboxie is a security program not a private browsing feature. You can use it to sandbox every program or file you run in your computer. Running your browser is just one function you can do with SBIE. By the way, I posted in this thread to help people with sound issues in Firefox not for promoting SBIE.
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The sound issue is due to the windows Builds 17063 not a Firefox issue, as for Sandboxie I know what it is and I have never had a use for it. Private Browsing is a more secure way to use a Browser.
Private Browsing - Use Firefox without saving history | Firefox Help
PSA: If you use Firefox, don't upgrade to 17063 (It breaks sound playback) : Windows10
Windows Audio quality guy here, we're on it
EDIT: figured it out, working on a fix
EDIT2: got a fix working, adding tests to stop this from happening again
EDIT3: made a Feedback Hub collection for this with an official response https://aka.ms/Fpb330
EDIT4: fix reached mainline, builds 17073 and later should work
While we all know you can disable some data collection in Preferences...
... however, Firefox will still collect and send data to servers.
Here's a fresh list of privacy, and subsequently, performance tweaks you can experiment with in the about:config page.
(although, dependent upon other settings, you should witness a performance increase)
PLEASE NOTE:
- Some of these tweaks will affect the 'New Tab' page functionality, use discretion.
- If you encounter problems, right click the modified entry and choose 'Reset'
browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.telemetry;false
browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.telemetry;false
browser.ping-centre.telemetry;false
toolkit.telemetry.archive.enabled;false
toolkit.telemetry.bhrPing.enabled;false
toolkit.telemetry.enabled;false
toolkit.telemetry.firstShutdownPing.enabled;false
toolkit.telemetry.hybridContent.enabled;false
toolkit.telemetry.newProfilePing.enabled;false
toolkit.telemetry.reportingpolicy.firstRun;false
toolkit.telemetry.shutdownPingSender.enabled;false
toolkit.telemetry.unified;false
toolkit.telemetry.updatePing.enabled;false
toolkit.telemetry.server;blank (remove all from the Value Data dialog and leave blank)
PLEASE NOTE:
- these tweaks will cripple Firefox 'Test Pilot Experiments' if enrolled
experiments.activeExperiment;false
experiments.enabled;false
experiments.supported;false
network.allow-experiments;false
Directory Listing: /pub/firefox/releases/58.0b15/
- Beta 14 -> Beta 15 Changelog +14
- #1409449
- #1417310
- #1418074
- #1424474
- #1425224
- #1426363
- #1428164 [Core:CSS Parsing and Computation]-stylo: the presence of a :-moz-window-inactive selector in a page stylesheet causes ::first-letter selector on the same page to not match everything it should [Uns][]
- #1419270 [Core
OM]-Make it possible to annotate attr getters and setters separately as needing subject principals [Uns][Beta approval requested for part 1 only]
- #1427091 [Core
OM]-Crash in OOM | large | NS_ABORT_OOM | AppendUTF16toUTF8 | mozilla::dom::MultipartBlobImpl::InitializeBlob [Win][]
- #1418806 [Core
OM: Animation]-Crash in core::result::unwrap_failed<T> | geckoservo::glue::Servo_AnimationCompose [Win][]
- #1425156 [Core:Networking: HTTP]-regression: HTTP Basic Auth dialog won't appear [Lin][]
- #1427847 [Firefox:Activity Streams: Newtab]-Update strings for Firefox 58 [Uns][]
- #1425839 [Firefox
eveloper Tools: Netmonitor]-Splitter does not have a border at the boundary of requests list header and details tab [All][]
- #1428728 [Release Engineering:Release Automation]-Snap: Fix media playback, webgl and printing [Uns][]
So, Josey, does this beta solve the "no sound" issue caused by Build 17063? Or do we still have to wait for a new Insider Build?
Firefox Beta 16 is out
Directory Listing: /pub/firefox/releases/58.0b16/
Next release will be RC1
- Beta 15 -> Beta 16 Changelog +14
- #1387427
- #1396399
- #1426449
- #1427126
- #1428589
- #1422735 [Core:Build Config]-Change symbol upload URL from Socorro to Tecken [Uns][]
- #1421214 [Core
ocument Navigation]-Links don't work when anchor fragment identifier contains § [Uns][]
- #1421262 [Core:Graphics]-Firefox renders garbage viewing PDFs or Google Docs with nVidia driver [Uns][[gfx-noted]]
- #1427089 [Core:Graphics]-Crash in mozilla::layers::CompositorBridgeChild::NotifyFinishedAsyncEndLayerTransaction [All][[gfx-noted]]
- #1426042 [Core:Layout: Text]-Bidi reordering failure with zero-length ::after pseudo-element [was: The text is displayed in the LTR direction] [All][]
- #1429542 [Core:Networking: HTTP]-Crash in mozilla::net::HttpChannelChild::Cancel [Win][]
- #1246883 [Core:Printing: Output]-Regression: SVG prints without page margins and without header/footer lines [Win][]
- #1427273 [Core:Security: PSM]-Cannot add certificate exceptions if the profile path contains non-ASCII chars [Win][]
- #1426500 [Core:WebVR]-Enable WebVR for macOS only on Nightly and Dev-Edition [Mac][]