Set Gmail as the default mail sending application in Firefox 3

There are many web sites having the standard emailto: protocol for you to directly email to the web site owner. For example, you can click this hyperlink to email to me. Traditionally, once you click this emailto link, it will call a pre-installed email software in your PC to open a email compose window for you to write and send email. But nowadays, with Firefox 3 we can use webware instead of software to handle this email matter. Firefox can use Gmail and Yahoo email to handle this mailto: protocol.

Here are the steps :

1. Make sure the mailto handler is turn on

Open Firefox 3 In the address bar, input about:config (If there is a friendly warning, simply accept it.) In the filter box, input network.protocol-handler.external.mailto Make sure the value is true. If it is false, double click it to toggle it to true. After setting it to true, the settings will be saved in the file %ProgramFiles%\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\pref\filrefox.js

2. Set Gmail as the default email application

In the Firefox main menu, click Tools Click Options Click the Applications tab In the Search box, input mailto In the Action drop down box, choose Use Gmail Tick the check-box Remember my choice for mailto links

Now, Firefox will call gmail to handle the mailto: link.

As a reminder, sometimes, the mailto: link may be inside a frame of the web page. In this case, Firefox will switch to Gmail inside that frame. If that frame is too small, you have to :

Right click the mouse button Click This frame Click Open Frame in New Tab

Then, the frame will be opened in a new tab for you to use Gmail to write and send email.

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