Using Java, how can I detect all of the browsers that are installed on a system?
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Using Java, how can I detect all of the browsers that are installed on a system?
You can’t.
You can open a page using the default browser on a system with Java 6 *, but you can’t list all browsers installed on a system.
Sure, you can iterate over Windows’
C:\Program Files\folder or *nix’s/usr/local(or other dirs) to check for browser names, but you might run into user-privilege issues and you’re never guaranteed to get all browsers, nor is this OS independent.