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In the binary distribution of firefox, what is the difference between the executable 'firefox' and the executable 'firefox-bin' ?

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In the top level directory you have the two executables 'firefox' and 'firefox-bin'. What is the difference between them?

In the top level directory you have the two executables 'firefox' and 'firefox-bin'. What is the difference between them?

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They have slightly different file lengths.

ls -la !$

ls -la /home/firefox/firefox* -rwxr-xr-x 1 stephen stephen 139152 May 24 03:56 /home/firefox/firefox -rwxr-xr-x 1 stephen stephen 139160 May 24 03:56 /home/firefox/firefox-bin

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Problem has not been "solved"

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Why did you choose your above reply as the solution if this hasn't been fixed.

Did you compare the two files?

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