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Where is firefox located in linux?

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frodwii20
frodwii20
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I need to write a program that will find firefox on user computer. I want to use whichcraft(python) For example chrome is located: 'chromium-browser', 'chromium', 'google-chrome', 'google-chrome-stable'.

I need to write a program that will find firefox on user computer. I want to use whichcraft(python) For example chrome is located: 'chromium-browser', 'chromium', 'google-chrome', 'google-chrome-stable'.

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ARMAN KHAN
ARMAN KHAN
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hello frodwii20,

this is sample code- please follow this

  1. This code is used to open URL in firefox
  2. browser

import webbrowser

  1. To take the URL as input from the user.

print('Enter the URL: ', end="") link = input()

  1. Passing firefox executable path to the
  2. Mozilla class.

firefox = webbrowser.Mozilla("C:\\Program Files\ \Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe")

  1. Using open() function to display the URL.

firefox.open(link)

Terry
Terry
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On my Linux system Firefox is simply firefox. On some Linux systems the executable itself is firefox-bin.