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In ubuntu when I just open a terminal and say "firefox -v" or "konqurer -v" it prints all the version information.

But, I am not able to find how to go about this for

  1. Chromium on Linux & Windows (7) [Couldn't get to work with this link and this link
  2. Firefox on Windows (7)
  3. IE on Windows (7)

Previously on Windows xp executing "someexe.exe /?" used to show help and command line options for that exe. But it doesn't seem to be working for Windows 7. I tried "Chrome.exe /?" and it just starts chrome.

I know how to get it in GUI, but I would like to script it. How can I do this?

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I know this is a old question but it might help someone. (Donnow about Windows haven't used it in a long time ;)

Chromium and Google Chrome for Linux both have a command line flag to output the version. You can find them like:

google-chrome --product-version

and

chromium-browser --product-version

Many other interesting command line flags here: http://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/

Hope it helps. :-)

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It depends on the linux flavor, but if its an RPM-Based OS (RedHat & its darivities mainly)

  rpm -qa | grep browsername 

usually does the trick.

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  • Awesome! I was looking for the debian version of it. #apt-cache policy packagename or #apt-cache madison packagename Apt-cache doesn't require "sudo".
    – sanksjaya
    Aug 18, 2010 at 22:47
  • Thanks! Post here if you have an answer for doing the same from Windows CMD (command-line) utility.
    – sanksjaya
    Aug 18, 2010 at 22:48
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    So you can get the version of IE (tested in xp): reg query "hklm\software\microsoft\internet explorer" | findstr /i version Aug 20, 2010 at 17:57
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    so of google chrome (installed as a normal user): C:\>reg query HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Update\Clients\{8A69D345-D564-463c-AFF1-A69D9E530F96} | findstr /i pv Aug 20, 2010 at 17:58
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In case anyone is interested in getting the version from Chromium source without building it, it's in this file:

src/chrome/VERSION

and from a compiled chrome, as others mentioned the following works (at least on Ubuntu which I tried)

./chrome --product-version
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I can't find a version command line switch for Chrome in Windows; in general the command line switches begin with -- rather than a single -, and a good list of known ones appears here: http://www.waltercedric.com/component/content/article/1713.html

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  • Cool. Thanks! But there doesn't seem to be one to check the build version.
    – sanksjaya
    Aug 19, 2010 at 3:05
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Per Technet, there is no way to get the IE version from the command line on Windows. The "-v" switch is UNIX-only.

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