Beonex Communicator

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Main other Beonex Communicator is a discontinued open-source Internet suite based on the Mozilla Application Suite (MAS) by Ben Bucksch, a German Mozilla developer.[1] It was intended to have a higher security and privacy level than other commercial products.[2][3][4] The Internet suite contains a Web browser, an email and news client, an HTML editor (based on Mozilla Composer) and an IRC client (based on ChatZilla).[3][4][5]

Beonex Business Services offered the suite for free and provided documentation, easy install routines for third-party plug-ins, and tried to sell support and customer-specific changes on the browser.[6][7] The main goal was to implement Kerberos, OpenPGP, and LDAP in Beonex,[8] but that was marked as failed in mid-2004.[9] It was discontinued before reaching production release stage.

History

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Overall, this project seems most interested in staying as true to Mozilla as possible.[10]

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Mozilla Organization stated that the Mozilla Application Suite was only for developers and testing purposes and was not meant for end users.[11][12][13][14]

On 5 January 2001 Beonex was included in the Linux distribution kmLinux version S-0.4, but was removed in version S-0.5 released on 23 March 2001.[15] Beonex 0.8 was released in June 2002 received positive reviews about its speed.[16][17]

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a BeOL preview

Beonex Launcher (BeOL, spoken B-O-L), was an additional upcoming product that never left alpha status; it was a stripped-down version of Beonex Communicator: a Web browser combined with an email client and a chat client.[18]

With a few preview releases of version 0.9 in mid-2002, Bucksch showed some new features he wanted to integrate, but before this version gained a stable status, he announced on 2 March 2004 that no new releases were planned until the Mozilla Foundation decided its future policy.[19] In 2005, the Mozilla Foundation officially changed its policies and created the Mozilla Corporation to provide end-user support.

Beonex Communicator 0.8.2-stable has several known security issues.[20] Beonex never received much market share.[12]

In October 2020, the distributor of Beonex joined the Coalition for App Fairness, which defends the rights of app developers.[21]

Comparison with Netscape and MAS

The browser does not transmit referrers by default and has the possibility to create a fake referrers.[22] The browser deletes all cookies upon exiting and disables several JavaScript functions which could have served as attack vectors.[4][23][24] Beonex also allows changing the user agent.[25]

In the following comparison table not all releases of Netscape and MAS are included. For a more complete table see Gecko (layout engine).

Mozilla Application Suite Netscape Beonex Communicator
Version Release date
0.6 6.0 0.6[26] 14 November 2000
0.9.2 6.1
0.9.4 6.2
0.9.4.1 6.2.2 0.7[26] 8 November 2001
1.0 0.8[27] 5 June 2002
1.0.1 7.0 0.8.1[28] 19 September 2002
1.0.2 7.01 and 7.02 0.8.2[29] 10 March 2003
1.1 0.9pre 27 August 2002[26]

Differences from Netscape

In contrast with Netscape, Beonex has included nearly the same features except the proprietary parts like the integrated Net2Phone,[30] and the AOL Instant Messenger.[30] For online chatting, ChatZilla was integrated[31] and the sidebar and the search engines are also pre-configured.[1][17] Beonex is less resource-intensive than Netscape.[32]

Beonex includes a migration tool to import old profiles from Netscape Communicator.[4][17]

Differences from MAS

Beonex Communicator was not a fork of MAS; rather, it was a separate branch, so no significant changes were made.[33] HTML email and JavaScript are turned off by default and thus, it displays email only in plain text with bold and cursive additions[4][34] which were added later in MAS 1.1.[35] The search engines is compatible with the Mycroft project and is located in the sidebar providing more features.[36]

References

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External links

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