Cocoon for Firefox, v1.9 Release Notes
*Stability issues have been improved for Mozilla Firefox 13 and 14 . Please login to Cocoon to download the update.
*Compatibility with Firefox version 15. Please update from the Cocoon website: https://getcocoon.com/support/download
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Service Issues:
Time: 3:35pm Thursday (PDT)
Fixed a service issue which may have prevented some users from connecting to Cocoon’s service.
The limitless nature of the Internet, coupled with the naivety of our children, leaves them more prone than ever to collateral damage.
The limitless nature of the Internet, coupled with the naivety of our children, leaves them more prone than ever to collateral damage. I’m speaking about the effects simple misunderstandings, spelling errors, and the like that can expose our little ones to a wide array of inappropriate content.
As you know, a simple Google image search can turn up things that would make grown men blush. The beauty of the Web is that you can find pretty much anything, but that doesn’t mean that everything is appropriate for everyone.
Sadly, we also know there are criminals, deviants and sexual predators that are actively targeting children who browse the web.
Sadly, we also know there are criminals, deviants and sexual predators that are actively targeting children who browse the web. More and more each year, kids are accessing content online that is loaded with viruses and malware that track and even locate the user. As parents, it’s up to you to ensure that your child doesn’t wander into the streets of the wild web alone.
This tool will join Cocoon’s other online security and privacy tools.
That’s why Cocoon has partnered up with the KlaasKids Foundation to create tools for parents so that parents can provide their children with a safe online experience. While immediately giving parents a tool to manage which websites their kids can access, a top priority of the collaboration will be creation of a parent-sourced “white list” of recommended websites. This tool will join Cocoon’s other online security and privacy tools.
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The Cocoon Team!
Our goal has always been to offer people a way to access the web safe from viruses, theft and tracking.
Over the past several months we’ve added support for Internet Explorer and increased the speed and stability of the service by increasing bandwidth and servers. We’ve made the same real-time virus scanning available to everyone, that was once only available to large corporations, and we are now waiting for Apple to approve Cocoon for iPhone and iPad so we can share all these Cocoon features with iOS users.
To help with funding, we’ve begun to serve advertising while you browse within Cocoon.
Obviously, it takes money for us to continue to provide and grow the Cocoon service. To help with funding, we’ve begun to serve advertising while you browse within Cocoon. As always, inside Cocoon we do not use cookies or track your browsing history. We do not share your information with third-parties nor do we allow third-parities to place their tracking technologies within the Cocoon service.
We will continue to find ways of offering Cocoon as a free service available for all
We will continue to find ways of offering Cocoon as a free service available for all, and will be launching Cocoon+ in the near future, for an affordable way of browsing privately, ad and interruption free.
Stay tuned – there are many more good things coming from Cocoon!
Better connectivity for those users behind restrictive firewalls
The Cocoon client now supports both Mozilla Firefox 6 and Firefox beta 7. The binary component of the client was removed and Cocoon now runs on a broader spectrum of hardware. There were also some minor improvements to performance and the client was enhanced to resist proxy issues.
Cocoon continues to be virus-free, private, secure and FREE!
Thank you for your continued support!
–The Cocoon Team
Cocoon just got better! Though Cocoon has always protected you from unauthorized downloaded files that may contain viruses or malware, Cocoon will now be actively scanning for viruses on all downloads and will block any infected files.
This platform is updated multiple times per day with hundreds of thousands of malware signatures sampled daily. With the ability to keep bad Internet files away from your hard drive and computer, your system remains safe from malicious files.
With the added security of an enterprise-grade virus scanning solution that utilizes high-performance multi-threaded scanning to detect online viruses, malware, Trojans and other threats, Cocoon anti-virus scanning adds an extra layer of protection to complement a safe-browsing experience for all our users.
In a nutshell: Cocoon acts as a virtual firewall to keep the bad guys and their malicious bag of Internet threats away from your computer. With an additional layer of anti-virus protection; Cocoon will alert you and stop harmful or malicious files from downloading to your computer.
Traditional anti-virus solutions deal with the problem after it has reached your computer. The Cocoon solution is to stop the problem before it reaches your computer.
At Cocoon we protect you from downloading malware onto your computer. We keep the Web from touching your computer and prevent automatic drive-by-downloads too. Our servers and our software do the browsing for you, strip out all the bad stuff, and simply deliver the Internet content you were looking for in the first place.
Cocoon currently supports Firefox versions 3.6.3 – 5.0.1, under Windows 7, XP and Vista, Mac OS X.4 or newer, and most modern Linux systems.
What people are saying:
CNET: “Cocoon looks like a serious contender for one of the best add-ons of the year.”
ExtremeTech: “Cocoon is a brilliant idea — and like most sparks of brilliance, it’s also simple.”
You can share this link with your friends so that they can browse the Internet privately and virus free too!
https://getcocoon.com/signup
If you have further questions you can contact our support team and also visit us on Twitter and Facebook!
Product updates are part of our ongoing plan to offer Cocoon users the best in Internet security, privacy and enhanced features to complement a seamless browsing experience. Your window to the Internet just got better!
What did we change?
If you click on the Settings icon on the main Cocoon toolbar 
you will be presented with a new Settings toolbar that includes access to your history, important bookmarks and notes, mailslots, browsing preferences, support and your account (you can change your password here).
With the new Support tab you can:
With the new My Account tab you can:
New Bug Fix
We fixed an issue that prevented users from accessing their Yahoo! Mail.
Your feedback is important to us!
As always, the Cocoon™ service acts as a window to the Internet, where our servers and our software do the browsing for you, strip out all the bad stuff, and simply deliver the Internet content you were looking for in the first place. Please continue to let us know what you think of Cocoon updates. We sincerely appreciate your feedback as we continue to offer ongoing enhancements and look to our users to gauge progress in this area.
If there is more that you would like to see changed or added, we would love to hear from you! You can use our handy contact form or visit us on Twitter or Facebook!
As mentioned in a prior blog post, our developers ensure that each update comes with increased functionality and compatibility. Providing our users with a smart, sleek and trimmed add-on has become a top priority as security, privacy and functionality are enhanced with each stage of development.
We are happy to announce that this past weekend we added improved toolbar functionality. Now you can bookmark or add a note via new icons from the Cocoon toolbar:
You can access Cocoon bookmarks by clicking on the history icon in the toolbar. From the history page in list view, you will see a blue thumbtack icon to the left of a saved site. Clicking on the blue thumbtack [bookmark] will connect you with the page that you saved.
You can also access the bookmark feature in visual format by clicking on the blue thumbtack icon that appears in the upper left hand corner above the image:
Last week we updated Cocoon with two new privacy features:
Thank you for continuing to use Cocoon and we appreciate your feedback. If there is more that you would like to see changed or added, we would love to hear from you.
You can use our handy contact form or visit us on Twitter or Facebook!
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According to a recent report from Dasient, there were over three million impressions served per day on malicious web advertisements, with more than one million web sites estimated to be infected in the final quarter of 2010. The report also predicted that after three months of browsing, the average Internet user would have a 95% chance of hitting an infected page. Not surprising was that this same report found that most social media networks were prone to being used as distribution platforms for malware.
Our most recent Cocoon product update includes server-side blocking of advertisements. At Mashable this is the advertisement that I viewed with Cocoon prior to blocking advertising
With such constant bombardment of online advertising, my mind still has not learned how to filter out the graphics. Using Cocoon preferences all I had to do was place a check mark here
and advertisements turn into aesthetically pleasing white space…
Another New Feature: Block Facebook Tracking
You can now use Block Facebook Tracking to prevent websites from identifying you through Facebook and reporting this information back to the mother ship.
When you visit a website like CNN, you can see what your friends are recommending and sharing on CNN. Your friends can also see what you are recommending and sharing.
If you are not in the mood for reciprocity you can turn this feature off in Cocoon preferences.
You can now enjoy the news knowing you are safe from prying eyes and your friends will not be able to view your activity on CNN.
Thank you for continuing to use Cocoon and we appreciate your feedback. If there is more that you would like to see changed or added, we would love to hear from you.
You can use our handy contact form or visit us on Twitter or Facebook!
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