Fx sandboxie put a browser in a sandbox so it doesn't effect the system.
Does portableapps do the same when the browser has its own data/other folder?
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But they aren't stealth if that's what you're looking for.
Ed
It depends on your definition of stealth. If you mean according to Portable Free Collection, they are stealth. If you mean actually stealth, there's no such thing, even if it is virtualized since you'll still see the contained running on a given PC.
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And some voted for sandboxie when you're browsing. But isn't that useless when the browser is made portable, because it is already virtualized then and therefore doesn't infect the system?
well this word would for me mean that the program runs in a virtual machine or it has for all access to host system some clear defined interface which only such program could.
I do not see where portable apps are virtualized.
So not not sure what do you mean by virtualized in this context.
The portable apps use same parts of the system as normal programs do and if they need to write something to some places on the local machine, they will try to clean it up when closing.
This is for me so far no virtualization. But well it depands on definition.
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