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Comments on: Set Web e-mail as default Firefox e-mail

Firefox 3 lets you set Web mail to launch when you click e-mail links.

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by mmckaibab June 21, 2008 9:00 AM PDT: The instructions for GMail make no sense whatsoever. Where, exactly, do you enter the listed string of code? Where do you see this "Add Application" button? Can someone please review these instructions and provide specific, step-by-step instructions that actually work?; Like this Reply to this comment


by mmckaibab June 21, 2008 9:04 AM PDT: I've tried this several times and it just does not work. When I paste the code into the address box and press Enter I just get a blank page.; Like this Reply to this comment


by rluckey77 June 21, 2008 4:26 PM PDT: Besides the previous two comments, I noticed that, at least *the way this article displays to me*, the code that is mentioned that we should paste ends with both an unclosed quotation mark and an unclosed parenthesis, which seems likely to me to not be correct (tho I know nothing about writing any kind of program code...); Like this Reply to this comment


by rluckey77 June 21, 2008 4:37 PM PDT: Hmmmm.... thinking that perhaps it was just the layout of the page that was for some reason blocking the full view of the line of code there, I copied a bit of the page, including above and below that line of code, and lo & behold, looking at the text that went to the clipboard, the code text does continue beyond what is visible to me on the page. Dunno if this comment box allows hypertext, but if it does, going to post the complete line of code here. The complete line is:
javascript:window.navigator.registerProtocolHandler("mailto","https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s","GMail"); Like this Reply to this comment


by rluckey77 June 21, 2008 4:45 PM PDT: Sigh....
Okay... that didn't work, too long, text didn't wrap around. There's two parts of that line of code, first part is easily visible, and is:
javascript:window.navigator.registerProtocolHandler
The line continues, with no spaces, with the following text:
("mailto","https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s","GMail"); Like this Reply to this comment


by rluckey77 June 21, 2008 5:25 PM PDT: PS... (Yeah, I know, I'm camping out on this page all friggin' day, lol....) For a clarification of the instructions on how to do this, follow the link in the article to the video demonstration!! It shows that you don't just paste that code into Firefox - you first open your Gmail account in Firefox, then paste the code in, and hit return, at which point a little "Add Application" button slides out for you to click on...; Like this Reply to this comment


by m18981 June 21, 2008 8:44 PM PDT: it does not work ,there is nothing like add application ,I am using a windows xp ,this is what i did instead
- choose other ,it opens a windows application folder ,
- and I choose thunderbird it comes up in the mail to window ,
- I click email link in a webpage ,nothing happens; Like this Reply to this comment


by RoccoGraz June 22, 2008 1:13 PM PDT: Gmail worked great. When choosing to use Yahoo, the "mailto:" is placed in the To: space. Also when using Yahoo with Craigslist, it places the "mailto:" in addition to the Craigslist Description all in the To: field. The Gmail in this regard worked flawlessly. Gmail knows what to place in the subject line.; Like this Reply to this comment


by Brian_Johnson June 22, 2008 2:58 PM PDT: Hey people, just to let you all know, you must be on gmail before you paste the code (in the adress bar) then you will get the "add application" thing. Works Great for me, thanks Tom XD

Brian; Like this Reply to this comment

by johnnyzero July 2, 2008 8:59 AM PDT

I went through quite a bit of effort to make FF3's Mailto-related functions work correctly with the "new" Yahoo Mail Classic. I finally ended up using an extension called Webmail Compose to make it work. Everything works great, except Firefox's Send Link function.

Anyway, in the process I deleted the Yahoo Mail protocol handler (not needed, since Webmail Compose intercepts any MailTo functions), and I suspect this is why Send Link doesn't work.

I'd like to restore that protocol handler, but I can't figure out how to do that. I tried re-installing FF3, since I'm pretty sure the Yahoo Mail protocol handler is "bundled" with it. I also tried installing Yahoo Toolbar, thinking that might re-install the protocol handler. No go...

If anyone can go into their about:config file and let me know the values for that protocol handler, I should be able to use registerProtocolHandler to restore it.

Any help will be much appreciated.

JohnB

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by wollac July 28, 2008 9:24 AM PDT: If You Did not uninstall before re-installing it re-installing would not have had an effect so try uninstalling first then re-install again.; Like this


by wollac July 28, 2008 9:20 AM PDT: It Works fine but the instructions were rubbish. Just follow the instructions given at the top of the site until you are at you google mail page then past the code given into the address bar, click add application then go back into options and go to mailto in the applications tab and select gmail which is now on the drop-down.; Like this Reply to this comment


by gmb_mary March 24, 2009 10:00 AM PDT: Works perfect for me and I like it. Thank you!; Like this Reply to this comment


by billnem July 13, 2009 1:30 PM PDT: Any way to get firefox to send mailto links to MobileMe webmail? Thanks.; Like this Reply to this comment

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