Editing Beonex Communicator (section)

==Comparison with Netscape and MAS==
The browser does not transmit [[HTTP referer|referrers]] by default and has the possibility to create a fake referrers.<ref>{{cite web|title=Digitale Spuren – Surfer hinterlassen im Netz Spuren|language=de|url=http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/14/14052/1.html|access-date=1 February 2011|date=31 January 2003|first=Christiane|last=Schulzki-Haddouti|publisher=Heinz Heise|work=Telepolis}}</ref> The browser deletes all [[HTTP cookie|cookies]] upon exiting and disables several [[JavaScript]] functions which could have served as attack vectors.<ref name="pcm" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.golem.de/0206/20223.html|title=Beonex-Browser: Mozilla 1.0 mit mehr Sicherheitsfunktionen|date=7 June 2002|publisher=Golem.de|access-date=30 January 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|publisher=[[LinuxUser]]|url=http://www.linux-community.de/Internal/Artikel/Print-Artikel/LinuxUser/2001/03/Sieben-aktuelle-Web-Browser-im-Vergleich|language=de|access-date=8 February 2011|date=March 2001|volume=3|title=Tore zur WWWelt – Sieben aktuelle Web-Browser im Vergleich|first=Andreas|last=Huchler}}</ref> Beonex also allows changing the [[user agent]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.computerra.ru/hitech/32389/print.html|first=Константин|last=Лепихов|date=17 March 2004|script-title=ru:Прыткая ящерица|publisher=Computerra.ru|language=ru|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927014052/http://www.computerra.ru/hitech/32389/print.html|archive-date=27 September 2011}}</ref>

In the following comparison table not all releases of Netscape and MAS are included. For a more complete table see [[Gecko (layout engine)]].
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left"
|-
! rowspan="2" | Mozilla Application Suite
! rowspan="2" | Netscape
! colspan="2" | Beonex Communicator
|-
! Version
! Release date
|-
| 0.6
| 6.0
| 0.6<ref name="newsarchive">{{cite web|url=http://www.beonex.com/support/announce/news.html|title=News|access-date=28 January 2011|publisher=Beonex Communicator|first=Ben|date=12 March 2003|last=Bucksch|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110709035418/http://www.beonex.com/support/announce/news.html|archive-date=9 July 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| 14 November 2000
|-
| 0.9.2
| 6.1
|
|
|-
| 0.9.4
| 6.2
|
|
|-
| 0.9.4.1
| 6.2.2
| 0.7<ref name="newsarchive" />
| 8 November 2001
|-
|1.0
|
|0.8<ref>{{cite web|language=de|url=http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Open-Source-Browser-Beonex-Communicator-in-Version-0-8-62640.html|title=Open-Source-Browser Beonex Communicator in Version 0.8|date=7 June 2002|access-date=5 April 2011|publisher=Heinz Heise}}</ref>
| 5 June 2002
|-
| 1.0.1
| [[Netscape (version 7)|7.0]]
| 0.8.1<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.beonex.com/communicator/version/0.8/release-notes/security-alert/081.html|title=0.8.1|publisher=Beonex Communicator|first=Ben|access-date=29 January 2011|last=Bucksch|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718095246/http://www.beonex.com/communicator/version/0.8/release-notes/security-alert/081.html|archive-date=18 July 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| 19 September 2002
|-
| 1.0.2
| 7.01 and 7.02
| 0.8.2<ref name="relnotes08">{{cite web|url=http://www.beonex.com/communicator/version/0.8/release-notes/|access-date=29 January 2011|publisher=Beonex Communicator|first=Ben|last=Bucksch|title=Release-notes|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707224645/http://www.beonex.com/communicator/version/0.8/release-notes/|archive-date=7 July 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| 10 March 2003
|-
| 1.1
|
| 0.9pre
| 27 August 2002<ref name="newsarchive" />
|}

===Differences from Netscape===
In contrast with Netscape, Beonex has included nearly the same features except the proprietary parts like the integrated [[Net2Phone]],<ref name="giga">{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021203134841/http://www.giga.de/dbout/reporter5/fullstories/nr20925.html|archive-date=3 December 2002|url=http://www.giga.de/dbout/reporter5/fullstories/nr20925.html|publisher=[[GIGA Television]]|title=Zweiter Ableger vom Mozilla|language=de|access-date=29 January 2011}}</ref> and the [[AOL Instant Messenger]].<ref name="giga" /> For online chatting, [[ChatZilla]] was integrated<ref>{{cite journal|title=World Wide Web|year=2001|language=de|volume=1|page=26|journal=[[iX (magazine)|iX]]|publisher=Heinz Heise|first=Henning|last=Behme}}</ref> and the [[Sidebar (computing)|sidebar]] and the [[web search engine|search engines]] are also pre-configured.<ref name="heise" /><ref name="linux community">{{cite web|access-date=29 January 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020612045509/http://www.linux-community.de/Neues/story?storyid=691|url=http://www.linux-community.de/Neues/story?storyid=691|archive-date=12 June 2002 |title=Slimfast für Mozilla|first=Fionn|last=Behrens|publisher=Linux-Community.de|language=de|date=2 December 2000}}</ref> Beonex is less resource-intensive than Netscape.<ref name="heise2">{{cite web|url=http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Netscape-6-Fett-aber-schnell-Update-27315.html|title=Netscape 6: Fett, aber schnell (Update)|date=14 November 2000|language=de|access-date=29 January 2011|publisher=[[Heinz Heise]]}}</ref>

Beonex includes a migration tool to import old profiles from [[Netscape Communicator]].<ref name="pcm" /><ref name="linux community" />

===Differences from MAS===
Beonex Communicator was not a [[fork (software)|fork]] of MAS; rather, it was a separate [[Branching (software)|branch]], so no significant changes were made.<ref>{{cite web|title=We are accepting patches|url=http://www.developer.beonex.com/communicator/patches/|access-date=30 January 2011|publisher=Beonex Communicator|first=Ben|last=Bucksch}}</ref> [[HTML email]] and JavaScript are turned off by default and thus, it displays [[email]] only in [[plain text]] with bold and cursive additions<ref name="pcm" /><ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.heise.de/ct/hotline/Nur-Text-Mails-im-Mozilla-312910.html|title=Nur-Text-Mails im Mozilla|year=2002|language=de|volume=17|page=188|journal=[[C't]]|publisher=Heinz Heise|first=Karsten|access-date=7 February 2011|last=Violka<!--Author is displayed at following page: http://www.heise.de/artikel-archiv/ct/2002/17/188_kiosk-->}}</ref> which were added later in MAS 1.1.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.golem.de/showhigh2.php?file=/0206/20285.html|publisher=Golem.de|language=de|access-date=7 March 2011|date=12 June 2002|title=Mozilla 1.1 Alpha ist da}}</ref> The search engines is compatible with the Mycroft project and is located in the sidebar providing more features.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5413?page=0,1|title=Browser Comparison|access-date=29 January 2011|date=1 March 2002|first=Ralph|last=Krause|magazine=[[Linux Journal]]}}</ref>