Microphone cannot un-mute while sandboxed in sandboxie plus

[Hackelhack]

Hey! - I first of all, I love the project.
Normally I sandbox chat programs to keep them contained - but webcord seems to not allow the microphone to unmute.

I understand that this may be a Sandboxie problem and I wanted to reach out anyway as having this work would really complete the exp for me

[SpacingBat3]

Have you read the FAQ? This what you describe seems to be in fact an Electron bug (and can occur without sandboxing app at all), but the workaround was already mentioned in my FAQ at docs...

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(My thoughts about the app security, maybe you don't care about it but I posted them anyway.)

Also, I'm trying my best to make my app secure enough to be contained (i.e. it won't share any data to Discord from other websites, as literally no other website is directly connecting to WebCord except easter eggs) without sandboxing it at all... In fact, Electron does a great job at separating the renderer process and the main process, disallowing for the use of the internal node funtions, so the WebCord main scripts are only allowed for the node API usage (and potentially dangerous changes). As I limit the use of the external software each release and check what I am using right now (TypeScript does a great job and displaying the types of the modules as well, hence I know exactly what each function does and returns...).

Anyway, I'm dead serious about the safety of my app and there was lots of the security issues fixed in the WebCord's code since I developed my app (even if most of them were unlikely to be used against the users. Unlike the official Discord client, my client is always using the latest non-breaking Electron version possible at the release time, so if there's any vulnerability at Discord that uses vulnerabilities of both Discord website and Discord's out-of-date Electron version, it won't be the case for WebCord as those are likely to be patched by Electron developers themselves...

[Hackelhack]

Thank you so much for such a comprehensive response.
This is the first time I have ever reached out to anyone here so naturally I'm not at all too good at this at all quite yet.
And the read about app security was really nice to include, thankyou again for taking the time.

Looking at the FAQ; the bug in question not only needs one microphone in windows to be selected as Default Device, but another as Default Communications Device?

In that case things still aren't at all working for me when I apply the sandbox.
But it's no matter. I'll still continue to use Webcord and we will see what happens with future electron updates.

Thankyou again for all the hard work!

[SpacingBat3]

Well, this was a workaround for Linux, not sure if this is an issue for the Windows as well...

Unfortunely, I cannot do anything about it, Electron is responsible for handling which microphone device should be used and if it can't find any defaults, it seems to be broken and not work at all... I guess the sandbox app may be cause of this as well, as it may not return any default device to the applications, causing Electron-based applications to not know how to handle microphones... If so, I would report that issue to the Sandboxie developers to see if they know what's going on with the microphone in sandboxed software...