1873782 - Remove Firefox.app/Contents/Mac/firefox-bin (on macOS)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Widget: Cocoa, defect, P3)

Description

[Stephen A Pohl [:spohl] (OOO until 3/25)]

Launching firefox-bin no longer works on macOS since enabling restricted entitlements in bug 1853230, as reported in bug 1871447. Based on Bugzilla archeology, there was never a particular reason to have firefox-bin on macOS, unlike on Linux. We hesitated to remove it in the past due to potential breakage for anyone using firefox-bin. With it being accidentally broken by bug 1853230, this seems like a good time to remove it and avoid confusion going forward.

Comment 1

[Stephen A Pohl [:spohl] (OOO until 3/25)]

Attachment: Bug 1873782: Remove firefox-bin on macOS. r=#mac-reviewers!

Comment 2

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/3dc6f8a13dc9
Remove firefox-bin on macOS. r=mac-reviewers,bradwerth,glandium

Comment 3

[Serban Stanca [:SerbanS]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/3dc6f8a13dc9

Comment 4

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

Looks like this was never documented in SuMO
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-remove-switch-firefox-profiles#w_starting-the-profile-manager

Comment 5

[Stephen A Pohl [:spohl] (OOO until 3/25)]

(In reply to Francesco Lodolo [:flod] from comment #4)

Looks like this was never documented in SuMO
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-remove-switch-firefox-profiles#w_starting-the-profile-manager

Thanks, I've submitted a change.