We are very happy to announce some great improvements in Cocoon with a new user interface for the Firefox toolbar add-on. These improvements include:

• Blue indicator bar alerting you when you are protected by Cocoon – note the lower screen shot below.
• Easily pause Cocoon by unlocking it, allowing you to control when you want to download something onto your hard drive.
• Set Cocoon to keep you logged in after you’ve closed the browser window.
• If you have several accounts, select the pushpin to choose which user name you want retained in the log-in bar.
• Improved “History” functionality and features

Cocoon locked and protected

Cocoon unlocked not protected

Our goal is to make using Cocoon so easy you’ll always browse with it on. Like with any protection device it only works when it’s being used, and now with the “unlock” feature there’s no need to log out of Cocoon, making it easy to stay private and protected behind our proxy servers. Just make sure if you do unlock it, you turn it right back on – and the blue bar is there to remind you.

In time, as we have more file types transcoded into safe formats, there will be less reason to ever turn Cocoon off. Eventually you’ll be able to view virtually any content without having it touch your hard drive.

Please let us know what you think of Cocoon. We appreciate all the feedback we can get as we continue to develop the product. In fact, several of the features in this release were directly influenced by user comments, so keep that feedback coming!