Avatar for Username

Caută ajutor

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Află mai multe

Acest fir de discuție a fost arhivat. Adresează o întrebare nouă dacă ai nevoie de ajutor.

how to find your firefox version

  • 6 răspunsuri
  • 2 au această problemă
  • 6 vizualizări
  • Ultimul răspuns de bitlord

bitlord
bitlord
more options

Hello, I'm tring to write a script to check the version of Firefox on my computers. I know that if you do this firefox -version you get the Firefox version. The issue is that it doesn't tell me if Firefox is a ESR or not. Is there a command on the command line that will tell me this? Is there a file I could look at?

Hello, I'm tring to write a script to check the version of Firefox on my computers. I know that if you do this firefox -version you get the Firefox version. The issue is that it doesn't tell me if Firefox is a ESR or not. Is there a command on the command line that will tell me this? Is there a file I could look at?

Toate răspunsurile (6)

Amit Kumar Thakur
Amit Kumar Thakur
  • Locale Leader
more options

you can see the releases of firefox here: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/

bitlord
bitlord Deținătorul întrebării
more options

Thank you for replying. Though the link doen't tell me how to check to see if it is a ESR version. for example this link gives a nice list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_release_history has a nice list. for example 17.0 and 17.0.1 have both normal and ESR versions.

James
James
  • Moderator
  • Top 10 Contributor
more options

Firefox 17.0 and 17.0.1 were on the Release channel at time and the ESR channel continued as of 17.0.2 to the current 17.0.4.

The next Major version that will be in ESR support is likely not until Firefox 24.0

jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
  • Top 10 Contributor
more options

This is a Windows-hosted scripting tool, so you can read the registry and open text files?

You can piece together the path to the Firefox program folder using this key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Mozilla\Mozilla Firefox

provides the value CurrentVersion

For example: CurrentVersion=19.0.2 (en-US)

With that information, then, this key

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Mozilla\Mozilla Firefox\19.0.2 (en-US)\Main

provides the value InstallDirectory

For example: C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox

If you add "\defaults\pref\channel-prefs.js" to that you get a file with a line similar to the following:

pref("app.update.channel", "release");

That second value corresponds to the type of install it is. See: http://kb.mozillazine.org/App.update.channel

If that seems like a huge PITA, you could vote for this bug: Bug 726781 – No way to distinguish between Firefox 10 and Firefox 10 ESR via the registry. Note that you vote in the top section where it says Importance. It's not helpful to add "me too" comments at the bottom.

cor-el
cor-el
  • Moderator
  • Top 10 Contributor
more options

You can check the application.ini file in the Firefox program folder. 

SourceRepository=http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-esr17
bitlord
bitlord Deținătorul întrebării
more options

Thanks everyone for posting. I don't have an answer for my issue but I don't have many servers with Firefox installed so I will just have to manually check.