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I have written simple extensions for IE,Firefox and Chrome which allow users to make a call to valid phone numbers on the right click and this is working fine. But I need to run this in Citrix environment and since multiple instances of the application will be running I have set some unique values in appdata folder. For that I need to read who is the current user and the appdata folder location.

Is there a way to read the complete path of the appdata folder e.g. C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Roaming. UserName will be changing based on the logged in user.

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As far as I know, there's no universal way of doing that. Mostly because there's obvious and considerable security concerns involved and thus you usually don't get direct access to the filesystem.

As a work-around for Chrome, you can try looking at Native Messaging (from this excellent answer). You'd need to research similar solutions for other browsers.

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Thank you replying, Lasse. I know how to do this in IE and Firefox. But IE (using WMI) its very slow; although Firefox its working fine. NPAPI is no longer supported so couldn't find a way in Chrome...many thanks the for Chrome solution.
@Vijay: No problem. Glad to help. I'd appreciate it if you'd accept my answer by clicking the checkmark beneath it.
Just did. Sorry for the late response.

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