Email Information directly from Firefox

If you regularly send information to friends or colleagues you might find the Email This extension for Firefox quite handy. Normally those information are copied and then pasted into the email program or online script and then send to the recipients which naturally means that the sender has to open a website or application manually to send the information.

The Email This extension optimizes this process. It can be accessed from the right-click menu or by using keyboard shortcuts after highlighting any area on a website. Five different options are provided by the extension which allow the sender to send the highlighted text to Gmail, Google Apps, Yahoo, an external mail application like Thunderbird or Seamonkey.

All five are accessible through hotkeys as well. Alt G would load the highlighted text into Gmail, Alt Y into Yahoo and Alt M into the external mail client.

The extension will automatically add the title of the page as the subject and append the url of the website as well. This saves additional time. The mail application will be opened in a new tab if a web application is selected from the options.

It is possible to remove entries from the menu because normally only one, maybe two of them are needed. To do that one has to edit the emailthis.xul file in the gmailthis.jar archive. At the bottom of that file the five right-click entries are listed as menupopup id. Just remove the complete lines of the entries that you do not need and add the file to the archive again.