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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
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  • This might need build version levels to make sense later. I'm presuming you asked this soon after Mavericks was out and 10.9 (.0) was the version and 10.9.1 was not yet released? – bmike Mar 16 '14 at 13:05
  • 10.9.1 was released on December 16th. So it was already out. Mavericks GM 10.9.0 shipped with Safari 7.0, 10.9.1 came with Safari 7.0.1. – Matthieu Riegler Mar 16 '14 at 13:20

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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 Hash 1d2c91b644b46f41bfb54c214600a688

  • The Recovery partition Safari : v 7.0, Build 9537.71, MD5 Hash 669623eb8c35daf0a1a90b4895943723

Conclusion : Apple's doesn't seem to update the Recovery Partition when OSX gets updated !

Matthieu Riegler
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