Vista - Re: determine installed firefox versions via vbs?

"DaleB" <andreas.rieger@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:f83e9d35-d523-4c25-a940-4069a7d26374@xxxxxxI think a Firefox newsgroup could point you in the right direction, or
perhaps the Firefox FAQs.

Normally you could check the file from the
path found in:

HKLM\Software\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\Firefox.exe

but there are two glitches in this case.

1) If I remember correctly, FF2+ is no longer a
registered executable. What might work is to check
the Uninstall key. I've got FF 1.5 installed and it
shows under the subkey "Mozilla Firefox (1.5)".
That key has several values that will allow you to
get the parent folder/file path. From there you can
check the file version of firefox.exe.


2) Not so fast. This exposes a second way that the
Mozilla people seem to be unorthodox in the way that
they do things (in addition to not registering the EXE):
In my case, with FF1.5, I see 1.8.x as the file version.
So clearly they're using the gecko version as the FF file
version! I see 1.5 as the Product Version.

You might be able to get product version info.
through WMI. I don't remember offhand. If not, see
here for a small class that can be pasted into a
script. It will return any/all file version information
by parsing the file's PE structure directly and retrieving
the resource table:

www.jsware.net/jsware/scripts.php5#fvinfo