On Monday, October 17, 2016 11:01:40 AM EDT Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
> On 17/10/16 10:54 AM, Michael Mol wrote:
> > There's also firefox-bin, which gets built upstream with profile-guided
> > optimizations enabled. PGO is unsupported outside of upstream's build
> > process, last I checked...but that was a few years ago.
> 
> Mozilla project has a dev that's supporting PGO builds in the source
> package now.
> 
> That said, the primary reason why the mozilla *-bin packages exist in
> Gentoo is because that's all that upstream officially supports.

There you go, I had NO idea that was an upstream binary. I thought it was the 
same as firefox from source. I assumed a Gentoo developer built and packaged 
that. I did not assume it was an official binary.

The only way for users to know is to investigate...

-- 
William L. Thomson Jr.

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