Enumerating installed browsers on OS X
Use LSCopyAllHandlersForURLScheme(CFSTR("http"))
or LSCopyAllRoleHandlersForContentType(CFSTR("public.html"), kLSRolesViewer)
, or the set intersection of both.
Those two functions return bundle identifiers; you can use LSFindApplicationForInfo
to find the preferred instance on disk of an application by its bundle identifier.
(Don't forget to follow the Core Foundation memory-management rules.)
Edit: In a comment on this answer, smorgan suggests LSCopyAllHandlersForURLScheme(CFSTR("https"))
(that's https) as an alternative to the first call. This is a good suggestion.