Installed Browser Enumeration

[Chris Murphy via DotNetMonster.com]

I'm working on a project right now that needs to enumerate all the browsers
installed on a given windows system -- whether this is FireFox, Mozilla, IE,
Opera etc.. I need to build a list of the installed browsers with appropriate
exe locations and Full application names. Can anyone shed some light as to
how I can accomplish this, or at least point me in the right direction? Thank
you!

 

[Matt]

I'm working on a project right now that needs to enumerate all the browsers
installed on a given windows system -- whether this is FireFox, Mozilla, IE,
Opera etc.. I need to build a list of the installed browsers with appropriate
exe locations and Full application names. Can anyone shed some light as to
how I can accomplish this, or at least point me in the right direction? Thank
you!

There are no "sure" ways to do this. The best one is to go to the
registry, find the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT root and then find all
applications associated with the .HTML and .HTM extensions. These
should all be browsers.

Thanks to someone (I honestly forget who, its been years) for
suggesting this.

Matt