Comments on: Change The Default Email Client In Firefox http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/06/change-the-default-email-client-in-firefox/ A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:10:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Stevenhttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/06/change-the-default-email-client-in-firefox/comment-page-1/#comment-846449 Steven Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:11:02 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=14159#comment-846449 Seems impossible to add any other web based email other than gmail or yahoo. I created 2 new strings in 'about:config' , one with the name of the service & the second the address 'mailto' will open. They were correctly written as I simply copied &these strings : gecko.handlerService.schemes.mailto.1.name Gmail gecko.handlerService.schemes.mailto.1.uriTemplate https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s changing 'mailto:1' to 'mailto4' & adding my own parameters but whilst these new strings were saved in the user prefererences .js file, the option doesn't appear in the options/applications/mailto dropdown box. Quite a shame really. Seems impossible to add any other web based email other than gmail or yahoo. I created 2 new strings in ‘about:config’ , one with the name of the service & the second the address ‘mailto’ will open.
They were correctly written as I simply copied &these strings :

gecko.handlerService.schemes.mailto.1.name
Gmail

gecko.handlerService.schemes.mailto.1.uriTemplate
https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s

changing ‘mailto:1′ to ‘mailto4′ & adding my own parameters but whilst these new strings were saved in the user prefererences .js file, the option doesn’t appear in the options/applications/mailto dropdown box.
Quite a shame really.

]]> By: Robert Palmarhttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/06/change-the-default-email-client-in-firefox/comment-page-1/#comment-846271 Robert Palmar Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:17:17 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=14159#comment-846271 I've been curious about the missing Windows Live Mail myself. This has been the case for a long time and Mozilla has to be aware. Firefox also displays the "Although this page is encrypted warning..." for only MSN sites with all such warnings disabled in Firefox. Cynically side one could think this is all deliberate. I’ve been curious about the missing Windows Live Mail myself.
This has been the case for a long time and Mozilla has to be aware.

Firefox also displays the “Although this page is encrypted warning…”
for only MSN sites with all such warnings disabled in Firefox.
Cynically side one could think this is all deliberate.

]]> By: JDhttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/06/change-the-default-email-client-in-firefox/comment-page-1/#comment-846215 JD Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:59:18 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=14159#comment-846215 That was a good tip. I feel like a dummy for not knowing that, but I didn't, THANKS! That was a good tip. I feel like a dummy for not knowing that, but I didn’t, THANKS!

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