Beonex Communicator
Book of Mozilla | |
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 | |
Available in | English, German |
Type | Internet suite |
License | MPL/Netscape Public License[1] |
Website | www |
Beonex Communicator is a discontinued
Beonex Business Services offered the suite for free and provided documentation, easy install routines for third-party
History
Overall, this project seems most interested in staying as true to Mozilla as possible.[11]
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
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]
Comparison with Netscape and MAS
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
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] |
Differences from Netscape
In contrast with Netscape, Beonex has included nearly the same features except the proprietary parts like the integrated
Beonex includes a migration tool to import old profiles from Netscape Communicator.[5][18]
Differences from MAS
Beonex Communicator was not a
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