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Beonex Communicator

Beonex Communicator
Beonex-icon.png
Beonex.6-book-of-mozilla.png
Beonex Communicator 0.6 displaying the Book of Mozilla
Original author(s)Ben Bucksch
Developer(s)Beonex Business Services
Initial release0.6, 11 November 2000 (2000-11-11)[1]
Discontinued0.8.2-stable / 21 March 2003
Development statusdiscontinued
Written inC++, XUL, XBL, JavaScript
Operating systemMicrosoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD
Available inEnglish, German
TypeInternet suite
LicenseMPL/Netscape Public License[2]
Websitewww.beonex.com

Beonex Communicator was an open source Internet suite based on the Mozilla Application Suite (MAS) by Ben Bucksch, a German Mozilla developer.[3] It was intended to have a higher security and privacy level than other commercial products.[4][5][6]

The Internet suite contained a Web browser, an email and news client, an HTML editor (based on Mozilla Composer) and an IRC client (based on ChatZilla).[5][6][7]

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.[8][9] The main goal was to implement Kerberos, OpenPGP, and LDAP in Beonex,[10] but that was marked as failed in mid 2004.[11]

Contents

History

Overall, this project seems most interested in staying as true to Mozilla as possible.[12]

The Mozilla Organization stated that the Mozilla Application Suite was only for developers and testing purposes and was not meant for end users.[13][14][15][16]

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.[17]

Beonex 0.8 released in June 2002 received positive reviews about its speed.[18][19]

a BeOL preview

Beonex Launcher(BeOL, spoken B-O-L), was an additional upcoming product that never left alpha status which was a stripped down version of the Internet suite Beonex Communicator. It was a Web browser combined with an email client and a chat client.[20]

With a few preview releases of version 0.9 in mid 2002 he 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.[21] 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.[22] Beonex never received much market share.[14]

Comparison with Netscape and MAS

The browser disabled referrers by default and had the possibility to create a fake referrers.[23] The browser deleted all cookies when the program exited and also disabled several JavaScript functions which could have served as attack vectors.[6][24][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 SuiteNetscapeBeonex Communicator
VersionReleasedate
0.66.00.6[1]14 November 2000
0.9.26.1 
0.9.46.2  
0.9.4.16.2.20.7[1]8 November 2001
1.0 0.8[26]5 June 2002
1.0.17.00.8.1[27]19 September 2002
1.0.27.01 and 7.020.8.2[28]10 March 2003
1.1 0.9pre27 August 2002[1]

Differences to Netscape

In contrast to Netscape, Beonex had included nearly the same features except the proprietary parts like the integrated Net2Phone,[29] and the AOL Instant Messenger.[29] The chat tool ChatZilla was integrated[30] and the sidebar and the search engines were also preconfigured.[3][19] Beonex was less resource-intensive than Netscape.[31]

Beonex included a migration tool to include the old profiles from Netscape Communicator.[6][19]

Differences to MAS

Beonex Communicator was not a fork of MAS, it was a separate branch, so no significant changes were made.[32] HTML email and JavaScript had been turned off by default and thus displaying email only in plain text with bold and cursive additions[6][33] which was added later in MAS 1.1.[34] The search engines were compatible to the Mycroft project and were located in the sidebar providing more features.[35]

New features

Beonex integrated a special tool to change the user agent.[36]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Bucksch, Ben (12 March 2003). "News". Beonex Communicator. http://www.beonex.com/support/announc e/news.html. Retrieved 28 January 2011.
  2. ^ Bucksch, Ben. "Legal notices". Beonex Communicator. http://www.beonex.com/communicator/le gal/. Retrieved 28 January 2011.
  3. ^ a b "Mozilla-Entwickler mit eigener Browser-Distribution" (in German). Heinz Heise. 14 November 2000. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldun g/Mozilla-Entwickler-mit-eigener-Brow ser-Distribution-27527.html. Retrieved 29 January 2011.
  4. ^ Huchler, Andreas (February 2001) (in German). Frische Ware. LinuxUser. https://www.linux-user.de/ausgabe/200 1/02/007-software/software-02.html?pr int=y. Retrieved 1 February 2011.
  5. ^ a b "Beonex". Kefk Network. 4 June 2002. http://kefk.net/Open_Source/FS/Beonex /index.html. Retrieved 1 February 2011.
  6. ^ a b c d e D'Hollander, Peter (February 2004). "Alternative Browsers" (in Dutch). Personal Computer Magazine: 96, 97. ISSN 0772-8077.
  7. ^ "Beonex User Agent Strings". UserAgentString.Com. http://www.useragentstring.com/pages/ Beonex/. Retrieved 1 February 2011.
  8. ^ "Vielversprechender Netscape 6 Konkurrent" (in German). Blindschleiche.de. 26 November 2000. Archived from the original on 16 October 2004. http://web.archive.org/web/2004101606 1010/http://www.blindschleiche.de/sho wnews.php3/258. Retrieved 29 January 2011.
  9. ^ Foster-Johnson, Eric (30 November 2003). "Just browsing, thanks". ComputerUser. IDG. http://www.computeruser.com/articles/ just-browsing-thanks.html. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
  10. ^ "Announcing Beonex". Mozillazine. Mozilla. 29 November 2000. http://mozillazine.org/talkback.html? article=1745. Retrieved 29 January 2011.
  11. ^ "Bug 124026 - Roaming - funding via Beonex". Mozilla. 24 May 2004. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug .cgi?id=124026. Retrieved 30 January 2011.
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  17. ^ "Entwicklungsgeschichte". Schleswig-Holstein. 6 December 2004. http://www.lernnetz-sh.de/kmLinux/cha nges.html. Retrieved 1 February 2011.
  18. ^ Kluge, Oliver (2002) (in German). Jagdgesellschaft. Linux-Magazin. p. 2. http://www.linux-magazin.de/Heft-Abo/ Ausgaben/2002/12/Jagdgesellschaft/(of fset). Retrieved 29 January 2011.[dead link]
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  21. ^ Kluge, Oliver (September 2005) (in German). Soll der Fuchs ihn holen. 9. LinuxUser. http://www.linux-magazin.de/Heft-Abo/ Ausgaben/2005/09/Soll-der-Fuchs-ihn-h olen. Retrieved 7 February 2011.
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  24. ^ "Beonex-Browser: Mozilla 1.0 mit mehr Sicherheitsfunktionen". Golem.de. 7 June 2002. http://www.golem.de/0206/20223.html. Retrieved 30 January 2011.
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  26. ^ "Open-Source-Browser Beonex Communicator in Version 0.8" (in German). Heinz Heise. 7 June 2002. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldun g/Open-Source-Browser-Beonex-Communic ator-in-Version-0-8-62640.html. Retrieved 5 April 2011.
  27. ^ Bucksch, Ben. "0.8.1". Beonex Communicator. http://www.beonex.com/communicator/ve rsion/0.8/release-notes/security-aler t/081.html. Retrieved 29 January 2011.
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  32. ^ Bucksch, Ben. "We are accepting patches". Beonex Communicator. http://www.developer.beonex.com/commu nicator/patches/. Retrieved 30 January 2011.
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