Comments on: How to Set Gmail as Firefox Default Email Client

By: Djalal

Djalal — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:29:59 +0000

In the second script for Google Apps users you should change the quotation characters from ” to ” or ‘ otherwise it doesn’t work.

By: Squishy

Squishy — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:29:10 +0000

I used the single quotes and it worked. Problem is when I click on a mailto link it doesn’t put anything into the TO or Subject lines.

By: melissa

melissa — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:25:17 +0000

Worked like a dream. Thank you!

By: Frida

Frida — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:55:15 +0000

Actually installing the Gmail Notifier solved my problem… don’t know why but I’m happy:

http://groups.google.com/group/google-mail-problem-solving-uk/browse_thread/thread/3c147f4090d0f31f?pli=1

By: Frida

Frida — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:27:54 +0000

I tried the steps and when typing in

javascript:window.navigator.registerProtocolHandler(”mailto”,”https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s”,”GMail”)

got ‘Gmail has already been added as an application for mailto links’ and YET whenever I click one Microsoft Office Outlook opens. It’s burning up all my trial tries. Anyone else had this problem?

By: alex

alex — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:46:59 +0000

This is old news,
In Firefox 3: Edit – Preferences – Applications
I’m on Ubuntu so it might be a bit different for Windows users.
Find the ‘Applications’ tab in the browser settings.
Search ‘mailto’ – choose ‘Gmail’ there you go…
no more magic
easy peasy.

By: Ayesha

Ayesha — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:16:58 +0000

You can just do the following:

in firefox:

1. go to TOOLS
2. go to OPTIONS
3. click on the tab ADVANCED
4. In content type, scroll down to ‘mail to’ or type ‘mail to’
5. click on the ACtions column and choose whatever client you need.

EASY!!!

By: Hayden

Hayden — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:43:29 +0000

I’m trying to do this, but am unable to get it to work. my e-mail address is @roydongb.com but I read my e-mails in gmail. How do I go about setting this up>

By: NickHansen

NickHansen — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:24:30 +0000

This was the 1st google hit I got and it worked great for me. Nice tip.

By: t.a. mccan

t.a. mccan — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:01:59 +0000

Great hack. worked perfectly for me, thanks for posting!

By: Andrew P.

Andrew P. — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:41:14 +0000

The code will not work in form it given on this site, you must replace double quotation marsk ” to single ‘ :
javascript:window.navigator.registerProtocolHandler(’mailto’,'https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s,’GMail’)

By: agua_clara

agua_clara — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:41:28 +0000

Te explicas como el culo, chaval

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Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:52:50 +0000

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By: bryan

bryan — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:10:33 +0000

yes.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:23:13 +0000

Have you verify gecko.handlerService.allowRegisterFromDifferentHost and network.protocol-handler.external.mailto are True?

By: bryan

bryan — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:34:44 +0000

I report same result as suchi. the javascript step produces no visible result and I don’t find “webmail” in the Application list (via Options). I’m using a custom variation where “my server” is the name of my server : javascript:window.navigator.registerProtocolHandler(”mailto”,”https://mail.”my-server”.net/src/login.php”,”webmail”)