What's different about Safari.app in OS X 10.9.1 and Safari.app on the Recovery HD?
Having mounted the Recovery HD1, I MD5'd the Safari binary from the BaseSystem.dmg
and MD5'd the Safari binary from my OS X Mavericks 10.9.1 install:
-
/Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari
:669623eb8c35daf0a1a90b4895943723
-
/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari
:668065167a8b3b9ad3034bdba400a9dd
What's been changed in Safari.app on the Recovery HD?
1 Mounted using:
diskutil mount Recovery\ HD && hdiutil mount /Volumes/Recovery\ HD/com.apple.recovery.boot/BaseSystem.dmg
On OSX 10.9.1 :
OSX's Safari is a 7.0.1 (Build 9537.73.11
, MD5 Hash 668065167a8b3b9ad3034bdba400a9dd
)
Base System's Safari is a 7.0 (Build 9537.71
, MD5 Hash 669623eb8c35daf0a1a90b4895943723
)
So /Applications/Safari
differs on the Recovery HD.
On OSX 10.9.2 :
The System Safari : v 7.0.2, Build
9537.74.9
: MD5 Hash1d2c91b644b46f41bfb54c214600a688
The Recovery partition Safari : v 7.0, Build
9537.71
, MD5 Hash669623eb8c35daf0a1a90b4895943723
Conclusion : Apple's doesn't seem to update the Recovery Partition when OSX gets updated !