Moving SafeZone browser cache to Ramdisk - possible?

system · 2015-07-18T19:41:32.000Z

Hello all,

I have a very very expensive PCIe SSD that I’m trying to minimize writes to. I also like the privacy benefits that come with self-deleting caches. I have all my other browser temp directories pointing at a volatile Ramdisk, and it’s working great. But I’m not sure how to do it with the SafeZone browser. For Google Chrome, you would open up the properties for the shortcut that launches and add the switch "–disk-cache-dir=“R:\cache”. However, as SafeZone is actually running AvastUI.exe, the switch doesn’t work. Any way to do this?

Thanks for any help.

Eddy · 2015-07-18T20:30:59.000Z

All things in the safe zone stay in the safe zone, unless you select to share them outside the safe zone.

system · 2015-07-19T06:43:00.000Z

That doesn’t really answer the question though.

Is moving the Avast Sandbox to a Ramdisk feasible/worthwhile? Is the Sandbox what Safezone operates in?

mchain · 2015-07-19T07:09:41.000Z

Hi Qwinn,

And welcome to the forums.

https://www.avast.com/faq.php?article=AVKB44 (Scroll down to Features and Settings in index)
https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=72241.0

SafeZone is designed to run separately from Windows desktop. So modifying it could change the safety features built into it by creating a link/hole or a channel to the Windows desktop or system itself if you were to do as you propose. If you are concerned about browser history retention while in SafeZone use either Incognito mode or Private mode (Firefox) instead of the normal default browser that opens first.

Default SafeZone Chrome browser is a hardened browser and does not come with Adobe Flash installed, for example.

What Eddy meant was changing the default settings can bear unforseen consequences but you can change the settings if you wish. But as SafeZone is designed to be closed off from Windows and vice versa, I really do not see the point of opening it up.

bob3160 · 2015-07-19T12:52:51.000Z

Basically, if you open up Safe Zone, it really isn’t a safe zone any more so why use it in the first place.

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