How Do I uninstall all versions of Firefox silently via script?

I have been tasked to remove Firefox from 200 computers in our company due to security reason.
I have scanned all the computers for versions of firefox installed on them and noticed there are different versions of firefox on our computers.
I need to be able to uninstall them via our software deployment tool.
Please let me know if there is a script that can do the work.
thanks

Hello,
Maybe this help you:
*[https://wiki.mozilla.org/Installer:Command_Line_Arguments]

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Firefox 4.0 has not crashed on its own yet, so I've had no crash reports to send to Mozilla, but because I've had to use the "End Now" button on the Microsoft unresponsive program window numerous times to terminate it when it hangs, numerous Microsoft Windows dump reports have been generated, all of which I've sent to Microsoft.
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