The Google Chrome browser and its open source counterpart Chromium do not have options currently to configure default programs. Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer offer configurations to set default programs for email, videos and other file types which is handy if the default system applications or those defined in the web browser are not the ones that the web browser users wants to use.
Firefox users can for instance change the mailto protocol, that is the protocol that defines the service or application used for emailing, from the default email program to Gmail or other web based services and locally installed applications.
Google Chrome does not offer this feature yet. There are however a few extensions that can make Gmail the default email client in Google Chrome.
Google has created an official extension for the Chrome browser called Send From Gmail which offers the functionality. The extension will automatically redirect mail links to Gmail. Some users have criticized it for placing a button in the Chrome address bar that leads to Gmail as well.
Those that prefer a version without button can install Send using Gmail (no button) instead which provides the same functionality but without the button in the address bar.
Please let us know if you have found another way of changing default programs in the Chrome browser.
Update: Send using Gmail has been disabled. Please use Send From Gmail instead.
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its ok
I’ve found another way, take a look at my blog, it’s in italian language but there is google translator on the page ;)
Here is how I set the default email client in chrome on linux.
http://www.putorius.net/2011/04/make-gmail-your-default-email-in-chrome.html