c# : Close chromium browsers without close google chrome browsers

Question

I would like to close chromium web processs

without closing google chrome browser which are running

The code bellow close chromium browsers but also google chrome browsers, that I don't want to :

 var chromeAndChomiumProcesses = Process.GetProcessesByName("chrome");
 foreach (var chromeAndChomiumProcess in chromeAndChomiumProcesses)
 {
        chromeAndChomiumProcess.Kill();
 }

Do you know how to do this?

the tricky here is to kill chromium but no chrome @RyanWilson — Pipo, May 01 '18 at 12:59
So you want to kill off any Google processes that are not the browser? — Ryan Wilson, May 01 '18 at 13:01
I want to kill chromium web browsers https://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/download-chromium but no google chrome web browsers https://www.google.com/chrome/ — Pipo, May 01 '18 at 13:04
seems like [XY problem](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-xy-problem). Why do you want to kill it, and does the process have anything distinguishing in the windows task manager .. like command line? — Slai, May 01 '18 at 13:08

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered May 01 '18 at 15:01

This may work if you know the path to Chromium. Plus, You will have to compile the code as x64.

Process[] chrome = Process.GetProcessesByName("chrome");

foreach (var chromeProcess in chrome)
{
    string fullPath = chromeProcess.MainModule.FileName;
    string expectedPath = "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe";

    if (fullPath.Equals(expectedPath))
    {
        chromeProcess.Kill();
    }
}

Also keep in mind this comparison needs to be case sensitive.

c# : Close chromium browsers without close google chrome browsers

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