How to Set Yahoo! Mail as Default mailto: Client in Firefox 3
In Firefox 3, by default, when user click on an email address or a URL link location that starts with mailto: protocol, the default email client, such as Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express or Windows Mail will be opened to allow user to compose and send email to the specific recipient’s mail address.
If you prefer to use web based Yahoo! Mail as your default email client, and want to let Yahoo! Mail handles all mailto: protocol, so that the automatic e-mail message composing and email sending will be done via Yahoo! webmail interface, Firefox 3 provides a very easy to associate the mailto: link with Yahoo! mail web-based interface, in fact, it’s a built-in integration.
- Go to Tools -> Options.
- Click on Applications tab icon.
- Locate and click to highlight mailto Content Type, and at the corresponding drop down box of Action, select Use Yahoo! Mail.
- Click OK.
After change, whenever a mailto: link is clicked, the email address will be sent to Yahoo! Mail account Compose web interface, with recipient automatically set at the clicked e-mail address. Of course, user have to enter user name and password credentials first if he or she hasn’t already logged in.
Note: It’s also possible to set Gmail as the default mailto: handler at Firefox 3.
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December 29th, 2009 16:22
Can you tell me how to make it open in a new tab? Whether I use my toolbar button to open Yahoo Mail, or Shareaholic, it seems to want to open in the same tab. I’ve been looking for a long time, and so far nothing.
November 17th, 2009 12:58
Thank you, thank you
July 30th, 2009 09:37
OMG!! yoiu save my life!!! You freacking rock!!!
thank you a loooooooottttttttttt!! =)
June 7th, 2009 13:30
WOW, you ROCK!!!! I have been looking for this for a LONG time, and this worked perfectly, even on my Mac. I have always been a huge fan of Firefox, but this even further makes me realize what an awesome program Firefox is. Hopefully if Yahoo ever changes the URL for composing emails, Firefox will update it automatically!
April 6th, 2009 09:09
In Firefox 3.0.8 on Linux the setting is not available through the Tools menu, but can be found in Edit – Preferences – Applications.
December 30th, 2008 13:23
As Chris mentioned below.. the entire mailto link pops up in the address field of Yahoo… maybe same in gmail.. don’t know.. Are these problems with Yahoo or with Firefox?
December 9th, 2008 05:44
I followed the instructions and now when I click a web page mailto it does open the Yahoo mail compose window but the address and the subject is all jumbled together in the address field.
Any solution for this. It was a Craigslist web page.
October 17th, 2008 10:58
finally! this has been driving me crazy.. now at least i wont have any misclick bombs!
“Click HERE to mail us”… expecting an online form, only to be fooled by a windows mail load up bomb!
July 2nd, 2008 02:53
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