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Beonex Communicator is a discontinued open-source Internet suite based on the Mozilla Application Suite (MAS) by Ben Bucksch, a German Mozilla developer.cite-ref-heise-2-0[2] It was intended to have a higher security and privacy level than other commercial products.cite-ref-3[3]cite-ref-kefk-4-0[4]cite-ref-pcm-5-0[5] 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).cite-ref-kefk-4-1[4]cite-ref-pcm-5-1[5]cite-ref-6[6]

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.cite-ref-blindschleiche-7-0[7]cite-ref-8[8] The main goal was to implement Kerberos, OpenPGP, and LDAP in Beonex,cite-ref-9[9] but that was marked as failed in mid-2004.cite-ref-10[10] It was discontinued before reaching production release stage.

• History

• Comparison with Netscape and MAS

• Differences from Netscape

• Differences from MAS

• References

• External links

Overall, this project seems most interested in staying as true to Mozilla as possible.cite-ref-11[11]

Mozilla Organization stated that the Mozilla Application Suite was only for developers and testing purposes and was not meant for end users.cite-ref-12[12]cite-ref-holger-13-0[13]cite-ref-14[14]cite-ref-15[15]

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.cite-ref-16[16] Beonex 0.8 was released in June 2002 received positive reviews about its speed.cite-ref-17[17]cite-ref-linux-community-18-0[18]

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.cite-ref-19[19]

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.cite-ref-20[20] 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.cite-ref-21[21] Beonex never received much market share.cite-ref-holger-13-1[13]

In October 2020, the distributor of Beonex joined the Coalition for App Fairness, which defends the rights of app developers.cite-ref-22[22]

The browser does not transmit referrers by default and has the possibility to create a fake referrers.cite-ref-23[23] The browser deletes all cookies upon exiting and disables several JavaScript functions which could have served as attack vectors.cite-ref-pcm-5-2[5]cite-ref-24[24]cite-ref-25[25] Beonex also allows changing the user agent.cite-ref-26[26]

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 | Beonex Communicator |

|---|---|---|---|

| Mozilla Application Suite | Netscape | Version | Release date |

| 0.6 | 6.0 | 0.6 [ 27 ] | 14 November 2000 |

| 0.9.2 | 6.1 | | |

| 0.9.4 | 6.2 | | |

| 0.9.4.1 | 6.2.2 | 0.7 [ 27 ] | 8 November 2001 |

| 1.0 | | 0.8 [ 28 ] | 5 June 2002 |

| 1.0.1 | 7.0 | 0.8.1 [ 29 ] | 19 September 2002 |

| 1.0.2 | 7.01 and 7.02 | 0.8.2 [ 30 ] | 10 March 2003 |

| 1.1 | | 0.9pre | 27 August 2002 [ 27 ] |

In contrast with Netscape, Beonex has included nearly the same features except the proprietary parts like the integrated Net2Phone,cite-ref-giga-31-0[31] and the AOL Instant Messenger.cite-ref-giga-31-1[31] For online chatting, ChatZilla was integratedcite-ref-32[32] and the sidebar and the search engines are also pre-configured.cite-ref-heise-2-1[2]cite-ref-linux-community-18-1[18] Beonex is less resource-intensive than Netscape.cite-ref-heise2-33-0[33]

Beonex includes a migration tool to import old profiles from Netscape Communicator.cite-ref-pcm-5-3[5]cite-ref-linux-community-18-2[18]

Beonex Communicator was not a fork of MAS; rather, it was a separate branch, so no significant changes were made.cite-ref-34[34] HTML email and JavaScript are turned off by default and thus, it displays email only in plain text with bold and cursive additionscite-ref-pcm-5-4[5]cite-ref-35[35] which were added later in MAS 1.1.cite-ref-36[36] The search engines is compatible with the Mycroft project and is located in the sidebar providing more features.cite-ref-37[37]

cite-note-11. citerefbuckschBucksch, Ben. "Legal notices". Beonex Communicator. Archived from the original on 3 February 2011. Retrieved 28 January 2011.

cite-note-heise-22. ↑ "Mozilla-Entwickler mit eigener Browser-Distribution" (in German). Heinz Heise. 14 November 2000. Retrieved 29 January 2011.

cite-note-33. ↑ citerefhuchler2001Huchler, Andreas (February 2001). "Frische Ware" (in German). LinuxUser. Retrieved 1 February 2011.

cite-note-kefk-44. ↑ "Beonex". Kefk Network. 4 June 2002. Archived from the original on 23 July 2011. Retrieved 1 February 2011.

cite-note-pcm-55. ↑ citerefd-hollander2004D'Hollander, Peter (February 2004). "Alternative Browsers". Personal Computer Magazine (in Dutch): 96, 97. ISSN 0772-8077.

cite-note-66. ↑ "Beonex User Agent Strings". UserAgentString.Com. Archived from the original on 26 January 2011. Retrieved 1 February 2011.

cite-note-blindschleiche-77. ↑ "Vielversprechender Netscape 6 Konkurrent" (in German). Blindschleiche.de. 26 November 2000. Archived from the original on 16 October 2004. Retrieved 29 January 2011.

cite-note-88. ↑ citereffoster-johnson2003Foster-Johnson, Eric (30 November 2003). "Just browsing, thanks". ComputerUser. IDG. Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 4 April 2011.

cite-note-99. ↑ "Announcing Beonex". Mozillazine. Mozilla. 29 November 2000. Retrieved 29 January 2011.

cite-note-1010. ↑ "Bug 124026 – Roaming – funding via Beonex". Mozilla. 24 May 2004. Retrieved 30 January 2011.

cite-note-1111. ↑ "Beonex Communicator 0.6 Pre". Tucows. 30 November 2000. Archived from the original on 14 November 2002.

cite-note-1212. ↑ "технологии – Mozilla празднует 10-летие" (in Russian). CyberSecurity.ru. 23 January 2008. Retrieved 30 January 2011.

cite-note-holger-1313. ↑ citerefmetzgerMetzger, Holger. "Über Mozilla" (in German). Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 30 January 2011.; shorten English version available here Archived 19 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine

cite-note-1414. ↑ citerefviolka2002Violka, Karsten (2002). "Zahmes Monster". C't (in German). 13. Heinz Heise: 218.

cite-note-1515. ↑ citerefbager2002Bager, Jo (2002). "Surfen ohne e – Mit Opera und Mozilla sicherer ins Netz". C't (in German). 25. Heinz Heise: 106.

cite-note-1616. ↑ "Entwicklungsgeschichte". Schleswig-Holstein. 6 December 2004. Archived from the original on 19 August 2010. Retrieved 1 February 2011.

cite-note-1717. ↑ citerefkluge2002Kluge, Oliver (2002). "Jagdgesellschaft" (in German). Linux-Magazin. p. 2. Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 29 January 2011.

cite-note-linux-community-1818. ↑ citerefbehrens2000Behrens, Fionn (2 December 2000). "Slimfast für Mozilla" (in German). Linux-Community.de. Archived from the original on 12 June 2002. Retrieved 29 January 2011.

cite-note-1919. ↑ citerefbuckschBucksch, Ben. "BeOL". Beonex Communicator. Retrieved 7 February 2011.

cite-note-2020. ↑ citerefkluge2005Kluge, Oliver (September 2005). "Soll der Fuchs ihn holen" (in German). LinuxUser. Retrieved 7 February 2011.

cite-note-2121. ↑ "Mozilla Browser Cross Domain Violation Vulnerability". Security Focus. 16 April 2003. Archived from the original on 6 October 2011. Retrieved 29 January 2011.

cite-note-2222. ↑ "Coalition for App Fairness, a group fighting for app store reforms, adds 20 new partners". TechCrunch. Retrieved 25 November 2020.

cite-note-2323. ↑ citerefschulzki-haddouti2003Schulzki-Haddouti, Christiane (31 January 2003). "Digitale Spuren – Surfer hinterlassen im Netz Spuren". Telepolis (in German). Heinz Heise. Retrieved 1 February 2011.

cite-note-2424. ↑ "Beonex-Browser: Mozilla 1.0 mit mehr Sicherheitsfunktionen". Golem.de. 7 June 2002. Retrieved 30 January 2011.

cite-note-2525. ↑ citerefhuchler2001Huchler, Andreas (March 2001). "Tore zur WWWelt – Sieben aktuelle Web-Browser im Vergleich" (in German). LinuxUser. Retrieved 8 February 2011.

cite-note-2626. ↑ citeref-2004Лепихов, Константин (17 March 2004). Прыткая ящерица (in Russian). Computerra.ru. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011.

cite-note-newsarchive-272. citerefbucksch2003Bucksch, Ben (12 March 2003). "News". Beonex Communicator. Archived from the original on 9 July 2011. Retrieved 28 January 2011.

cite-note-283. "Open-Source-Browser Beonex Communicator in Version 0.8" (in German). Heinz Heise. 7 June 2002. Retrieved 5 April 2011.

cite-note-294. citerefbuckschBucksch, Ben. "0.8.1". Beonex Communicator. Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 29 January 2011.

cite-note-relnotes08-305. citerefbuckschBucksch, Ben. "Release-notes". Beonex Communicator. Archived from the original on 7 July 2011. Retrieved 29 January 2011.

cite-note-giga-3131. ↑ "Zweiter Ableger vom Mozilla" (in German). GIGA Television. Archived from the original on 3 December 2002. Retrieved 29 January 2011.

cite-note-3232. ↑ citerefbehme2001Behme, Henning (2001). "World Wide Web". iX (in German). 1. Heinz Heise: 26.

cite-note-heise2-3333. ↑ "Netscape 6: Fett, aber schnell (Update)" (in German). Heinz Heise. 14 November 2000. Retrieved 29 January 2011.

cite-note-3434. ↑ citerefbuckschBucksch, Ben. "We are accepting patches". Beonex Communicator. Retrieved 30 January 2011.

cite-note-3535. ↑ citerefviolka2002Violka, Karsten (2002). "Nur-Text-Mails im Mozilla". C't (in German). 17. Heinz Heise: 188. Retrieved 7 February 2011.

cite-note-3636. ↑ "Mozilla 1.1 Alpha ist da" (in German). Golem.de. 12 June 2002. Retrieved 7 March 2011.

cite-note-3737. ↑ citerefkrause2002Krause, Ralph (1 March 2002). "Browser Comparison". Linux Journal. Retrieved 29 January 2011.

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