How to properly find paths of applications running on Windows (or other OSs

Hello all -
I am writing a Java desktop application that retrieves a string from a text field, and then uses the string to launch firefox with the google URL containing that search string. The way I start firefox from within the application is that I hard-code the path as follows:
private String firefoxPath = "C:\\Program Files\\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox ";
This is unreliable of course since the above path is only a default installation. Is there a way that I can dynamically determine the path of firefox (or any other installed application in fact) from within a running Java program?
Thank you.

drMohsenMadi wrote:
Generally speaking however, is there a way one locates the path of a running process from within a Java program?Nope, not without using JNI + some native code.

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