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]
History
Overall, this project seems most interested in staying as true to Mozilla as possible.[12]
The [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]
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
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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] Beonex was less resource-intensive than Netscape.[31]
Beonex included a migration tool to include the old profiles from Netscape Communicator.[6]
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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]
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Beonex integrated a special tool to change the user agent.[36]
References
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^ a b c d Bucksch, Ben (12 March 2003). "News". Beonex Communicator. Retrieved 28 January 2011.
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^ Bucksch, Ben. "Legal notices". Beonex Communicator. Retrieved 28 January 2011.
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^ a b "Mozilla-Entwickler mit eigener Browser-Distribution" (in German).
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^ Huchler, Andreas (February 2001). "Frische Ware" (in German).
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^ a b "Beonex".
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^ a b c d e D'Hollander, Peter (February 2004). "Alternative Browsers". Personal Computer Magazine (in Dutch): 96, 97.
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^ "Beonex User Agent Strings". UserAgentString.Com. Retrieved 1 February 2011.
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^ "Vielversprechender Netscape 6 Konkurrent" (in German). Blindschleiche.de. 26 November 2000. Archived from the original on 16 October 2004. Retrieved 29 January 2011.
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^ Foster-Johnson, Eric (30 November 2003). "Just browsing, thanks".
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^ "Announcing Beonex".
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^ "Bug 124026 - Roaming - funding via Beonex". Mozilla. 24 May 2004. Retrieved 30 January 2011.
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^ "Beonex Communicator 0.6 Pre".
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^ "технологии – Mozilla празднует 10-летие" (in Russian). CyberSecurity.ru. 23 January 2008. Retrieved 30 January 2011.
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^ a b Metzger, Holger. "Über Mozilla" (in German). Retrieved 30 January 2011. ; shorten English version available here
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^ Violka, Karsten (2002). "Zahmes Monster".
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^ Bager, Jo (2002). "Surfen ohne e - Mit Opera und Mozilla sicherer ins Netz".
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^ "Entwicklungsgeschichte".
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^ Kluge, Oliver (2002). "Jagdgesellschaft" (in German) (12).
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^ Bucksch, Ben. "BeOL". Beonex Communicator. Retrieved 7 February 2011.
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^ Kluge, Oliver (September 2005). "Soll der Fuchs ihn holen" (in German) 9.
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^ "Mozilla Browser Cross Domain Violation Vulnerability".
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^ Schulzki-Haddouti, Christiane (31 January 2003). "Digitale Spuren - Surfer hinterlassen im Netz Spuren". Telepolis (in German). Heinz Heise. Retrieved 1 February 2011.
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^ "Beonex-Browser: Mozilla 1.0 mit mehr Sicherheitsfunktionen". Golem.de. 7 June 2002. Retrieved 30 January 2011.
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^ Huchler, Andreas (March 2001). "Tore zur WWWelt - Sieben aktuelle Web-Browser im Vergleich" (in German) 3.
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^ "Open-Source-Browser Beonex Communicator in Version 0.8" (in German). Heinz Heise. 7 June 2002. Retrieved 5 April 2011.
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^ Bucksch, Ben. "0.8.1". Beonex Communicator. Retrieved 29 January 2011.
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^ Bucksch, Ben. "Release-notes". Beonex Communicator. Retrieved 29 January 2011.
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^ a b "Zweiter Ableger vom Mozilla" (in German).
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^ Behme, Henning (2001). "World Wide Web".
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^ "Netscape 6: Fett, aber schnell (Update)" (in German).
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^ Bucksch, Ben. "We are accepting patches". Beonex Communicator. Retrieved 30 January 2011.
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^ Violka, Karsten (2002). "Nur-Text-Mails im Mozilla".
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^ "Mozilla 1.1 Alpha ist da" (in German). Golem.de. 12 June 2002. Retrieved 7 March 2011.
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^ Krause, Ralph (1 March 2002). "Browser Comparison".
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^ Лепихов, Константин (17 March 2004). Прыткая ящерица (in Russian). Computerra.ru.
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