Detect browsers installed on the user's system

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Hi,

I wanted to develop a small application in C# which could detect which browsers are installed on a user's system.
Further to this, for eg: if Firefox is detected, then I would like to prompt user to install GreaseMonkey, if IE then install this otherwise do this etc. etc.
But how can the browsers be detected?

Posted 22-Nov-10 21:12pm

optimus_prime1

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**JF2015** · Answer 1 · 2010-11-22T21:15:00

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Hi,

you might get the information you need by searching through the list of installed software. This here might help you with this:

http://www.dreamincode.net/code/snippet1995.htm[^]

Posted 22-Nov-10 21:15pm

JF2015