Do you use a Sandbox for your web browser?


Sandbox your web browser?  

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  1. 1. Do you use a program like Sandboxie to protect your web browser?

    • Yes! Ultimate Security only!
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    • No! I like to live Dangerously!!
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    • No, there isn't a need too.
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I do not sandbox my browser however I do have very strict javascript policies. Javascript is essentially disabled across the board with a whitelist of certain sites and even within that list, I still block many scripts. My web experience a lot of the time is pretty bad looking because of this but I'm used to it at this point.

2 minutes ago, Zag L. said:

I do not sandbox my browser however I do have very strict javascript policies. Javascript is essentially disabled across the board with a whitelist of certain sites and even within that list, I still block many scripts. My web experience a lot of the time is pretty bad looking because of this but I'm used to it at this point.

Are you using Firefox with NoScript?

  • 2 weeks later...

Never considered it. Should I?

 

When I first upgraded to Windows 10 and my wife complained about it being different from Windows 7, I should have built her a Windows 7 VM to run in. She doesn't do PC gaming, so I don't think it would have hindered her in any meaningful way. I got a pretty powerful Xeon with 16GB of RAM. I might need to shut down the VM for gaming, but otherwise, it should be okay.

 

Honestly I just can't be arsed to deal with VMs. They're very cool, but it's just extra steps. To do things I could do with my computer without the VM, or on my phone. I got a VM running a PC-optimised build of Android (it has a taskbar... it's from the android-x86 project, so it's not shady). I use an iPhone, I generally prefer Android as an OS, but Android in a VM on my PC... I just gotta ask "why?". It's like having an Android phone ,but worse.

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