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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: Abstract40 on August 04, 2011, 05:21:52 PM
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Hi Everyone,
I'm an avast pro user and I really love the sandbox feature.
Since a month now after updating firefox to version 5 I'm having problems with it.
I did upgrade firefox 5 when the sandbox was disabled. After the upgrade was done I
virtualized the process 'C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe'. This always
worked for version 4. After I enabled visualization for firefox and try to start firefox its starting version 4 and tries to update to version 5.
Its strange because I did already install version 5. After it tries to upgrade to version 5 it stops with the message it couldn't update firefox and it starts version 4 of firefox.
When I remove the visualization process for firefox and hit the same icon it does start firefox 5.
Does anyone has an idea what to do?
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Sounds like you need to flush the contents of the sandbox. There is a button for this in its settings. After you flush it, the Fx5 should run a virtualized copy fine.
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Yes that solution worked perfectly! Didn't know that, thanks!
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Sure, glad to help. ;)
Same thing can happen to any extensions you use also, older versions hanging around in the sandbox still after updating, so it is good to remember.
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Had a similar problem with Chrome after it had updated though it wouldnt connect to any site. Worked fine after cleaning out the sandbox.