Hi
I am trying to determine the version of Firefox Portable installed on machines using SCCM. With in SCCM the file version always seems to be 1.7.8.0 even though the file changes. Is there a way to identify the version installed to determine if an update is required?
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Determine Firefox Version
September 18, 2013 - 11:17am
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Determine Firefox Version
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On a fire3fox window go to help and about firefox
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The version string you're reading is the Launcher version, the proper place to get the version from is ...\FirefoxPortable\App\AppInfo\appinfo.ini under or [Version]:PackageVersion (or [Version]:DisplayVersion if you want a human readable version string)
(if it can't parse .ini files then I guess you could get the version string from ...\FirefoxPortable\App\Firefox\firefox.exe, but if there's a Firefox Portable revision to improve portability or fix a Portable specific issue Firefox's version string won't change, only the one(s) in the .ini file)
Another option is to run the official PortableApps.com Updater (which is built into the PortableApps.com Platform) to check for updates, though this isn't silent (however you could probably edit the source to make your own silent version and recompile it using NSIS Portable if this is necessary).