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Hamza Yerlikaya
Hamza Yerlikaya

Reputation: 49329

Detect Operating System From Firefox Extension

I am developing a firefox extension, i need to detect which operating system firefox is running on but i can't seem to find and info on how to do it?

Upvotes: 12

Views: 2001

Answers (3)

Juraj
Juraj

Reputation: 6598

Firefox is moving to web-extension API where you can use:

chrome.runtime.getPlatformInfo(info => console.log(info.os))

Possible os values are: mac, win, android, cros, linux, openbsd

Documentation for getPlatformInfo is here.

Warning: this doesn't work from content-script, you will have to call your background-script.

Upvotes: 0

diorahman
diorahman

Reputation: 53

For completeness, getting os string for the new addon-sdk:

const {Cc, Ci} = require("chrome");
const osString = Cc['@mozilla.org/xre/app-info;1'].getService(Ci.nsIXULRuntime).OS;
console.log(osString);

Upvotes: 0

Hamza Yerlikaya
Hamza Yerlikaya

Reputation: 49329


    // Returns "WINNT" on Windows Vista, XP, 2000, and NT systems;  
    // "Linux" on GNU/Linux; and "Darwin" on Mac OS X.  
    var osString = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/xre/app-info;1"]  
                   .getService(Components.interfaces.nsIXULRuntime).OS;

Upvotes: 14

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