gHacks technology news » firefox mailto http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Change The Default Email Client In Firefox http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/06/change-the-default-email-client-in-firefox/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/06/change-the-default-email-client-in-firefox/#comments Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:40:00 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=14159 firefoxMany Firefox users do not know that they can change the default email client in the web browser easily. What even fewer know is that it is even possible to not only select desktop email clients but also the web based email providers Yahoo Mail or Gmail as the default provider for all mailto links.

The mailto links in the format mailto:email@example.com are launched with the default application that has been set in the Firefox web browser. To change that one needs to open the options of the web browser. Windows users go to Tools > Options to open the Firefox options.

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Users then need to locate the applications tab and filter for the term mailto. The menu should then look pretty much like the menu in the screenshot above. They then need to click on the pulldown menu on the right side to change the default email client in Firefox. Displayed are the current email client, the web based email clients Yahoo Mail and Gmail, the option to always ask the user and to select another email client not on the list.

The last option opens the file browser which makes it possible to select an executable on the computer system. It is therefor possible to select installed and portable email clients on the local computer system. It does feel a bit strange that neither Windows Live Mail nor Aol Mail are available from the menu.

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