Original author(s) | Ben Bucksch |
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Developer(s) | Beonex Business Services |
Initial release | Never |
Preview release | 0.8.2-stable
/ 21 March 2003 |
Written in | C++, XUL, XBL, JavaScript |
Operating system | Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD |
Available in | English, German |
Type | Internet suite |
License | MPL/ Netscape Public License [1] |
Website |
www |
Beonex Communicator is a discontinued open-source Internet suite based on the Mozilla Application Suite (MAS) by Ben Bucksch, a German Mozilla developer. [2] It was intended to have a higher security and privacy level than other commercial products. [3] [4] [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). [4] [5] [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. [7] [8] The main goal was to implement Kerberos, OpenPGP, and LDAP in Beonex, [9] but that was marked as failed in mid-2004. [10] It was discontinued before reaching production release stage.
Overall, this project seems most interested in staying as true to Mozilla as possible. [11]
Mozilla Organization stated that the Mozilla Application Suite was only for developers and testing purposes and was not meant for end users. [12] [13] [14] [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. [16] Beonex 0.8 was released in June 2002 received positive reviews about its speed. [17] [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. [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. [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. [21] Beonex never received much market share. [13]
In October 2020, the distributor of Beonex joined the Coalition for App Fairness, which defends the rights of app developers. [22]
The browser does not transmit referrers by default and has the possibility to create a fake referrers. [23] The browser deletes all cookies upon exiting and disables several JavaScript functions which could have served as attack vectors. [5] [24] [25] Beonex also allows changing the user agent. [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 | |
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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, [31] and the AOL Instant Messenger. [31] For online chatting, ChatZilla was integrated [32] and the sidebar and the search engines are also pre-configured. [2] [18] Beonex is less resource-intensive than Netscape. [33]
Beonex includes a migration tool to import old profiles from Netscape Communicator. [5] [18]
Beonex Communicator was not a fork of MAS; rather, it was a separate branch, so no significant changes were made. [34] HTML email and JavaScript are turned off by default and thus, it displays email only in plain text with bold and cursive additions [5] [35] which were added later in MAS 1.1. [36] The search engines is compatible with the Mycroft project and is located in the sidebar providing more features. [37]
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Original author(s) | Ben Bucksch |
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Developer(s) | Beonex Business Services |
Initial release | Never |
Preview release | 0.8.2-stable
/ 21 March 2003 |
Written in | C++, XUL, XBL, JavaScript |
Operating system | Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD |
Available in | English, German |
Type | Internet suite |
License | MPL/ Netscape Public License [1] |
Website |
www |
Beonex Communicator is a discontinued open-source Internet suite based on the Mozilla Application Suite (MAS) by Ben Bucksch, a German Mozilla developer. [2] It was intended to have a higher security and privacy level than other commercial products. [3] [4] [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). [4] [5] [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. [7] [8] The main goal was to implement Kerberos, OpenPGP, and LDAP in Beonex, [9] but that was marked as failed in mid-2004. [10] It was discontinued before reaching production release stage.
Overall, this project seems most interested in staying as true to Mozilla as possible. [11]
Mozilla Organization stated that the Mozilla Application Suite was only for developers and testing purposes and was not meant for end users. [12] [13] [14] [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. [16] Beonex 0.8 was released in June 2002 received positive reviews about its speed. [17] [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. [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. [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. [21] Beonex never received much market share. [13]
In October 2020, the distributor of Beonex joined the Coalition for App Fairness, which defends the rights of app developers. [22]
The browser does not transmit referrers by default and has the possibility to create a fake referrers. [23] The browser deletes all cookies upon exiting and disables several JavaScript functions which could have served as attack vectors. [5] [24] [25] Beonex also allows changing the user agent. [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 | |
---|---|---|---|
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, [31] and the AOL Instant Messenger. [31] For online chatting, ChatZilla was integrated [32] and the sidebar and the search engines are also pre-configured. [2] [18] Beonex is less resource-intensive than Netscape. [33]
Beonex includes a migration tool to import old profiles from Netscape Communicator. [5] [18]
Beonex Communicator was not a fork of MAS; rather, it was a separate branch, so no significant changes were made. [34] HTML email and JavaScript are turned off by default and thus, it displays email only in plain text with bold and cursive additions [5] [35] which were added later in MAS 1.1. [36] The search engines is compatible with the Mycroft project and is located in the sidebar providing more features. [37]
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