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javascript:window.navigator.registerProtocolHandler("mailto","https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s","GMail")

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javascript:window.navigator.registerProtocolHandler("mailto","https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s","GMail")

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javascript:window.navigator.registerProtocolHandler("mailto","https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s","GMail")

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Here's how to configure Firefox 3 to use Gmail as your default mailto: application handler.

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Here's how to configure Firefox 3 to use Gmail as your default mailto: application handler.

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javascript:window.navigator.registerProtocolHandler("mailto","https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s","GMail")

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Set Firefox 3 to Launch Gmail for mailto Links

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Set Firefox 3 to Launch Gmail for mailto Links

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Ready to set up Gmail? Roll up those sleeves.

  1. Open Gmail in Firefox.
  2. In the tab where Gmail is loaded, copy and paste the following snippet of JavaScript into your address bar:
    javascript:window.navigator.registerProtocolHandler("mailto","https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s","GMail")

    If you are a Google Apps user, use this code instead, but replace example.com with your domain name:
    javascript:window.navigator.registerProtocolHandler("mailto","https://mail.google.com/a/example.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s","GMail")
  3. Firefox 3 will ask permission to add Gmail as default mailto handler. Click the Add Application button, as shown.

Update, 6/18/08: Thanks to a great tip from a reader Andrew, the instructions above have been shortened considerably. Thanks, Andrew!

Now, if you click a mailto: link—try the tips link on Lifehacker's sidebar—Firefox 3 will ask which application you want to use. Choose Gmail, and select "Remember my choice for mailto links" to set the preference permanently.

gmail-handler-choice-win.png

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In the tab where Gmail is loaded, copy and paste the following snippet of JavaScript into your address bar:
javascript:window.navigator.registerProtocolHandler("mailto","https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s","GMail")

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javascript:window.navigator.registerProtocolHandler("mailto","https://mail.google.com/a/example.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s","GMail")

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Google Apps user, use this code instead

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To be on the safe side, head back into about:config and set gecko.handlerService.allowRegisterFromDifferentHost back to false.

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how about opening this in a smaller, popup window? Like the Mailto2Webmail Greasemonkey script?

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I'd still prefer to just install BetterGmail 2. Hopefully that will be updated for FF3 soon, along with BetterGcal.

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once Gmail Manager is updated for Fx3 I can use its features to compose in a new tab, plus it accepts the additional subject/body parms just fine

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When I open a new tab, it defaults to about:blank. I had to ensure that NoScript was allowing scripts from about:blank.

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Hmm... so now the question is how to remove one? I have a regular and a hosted account, so added both.. but they're both named "GMail" in the javascript above. I tried to re-add with a name of "GMail Hosted" but it says that I've already registered that handler. :(

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Tools->Options

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Applications Tab. Search for mailto. Drop down the select box, and choose Application Details. Hit the Remove button to remove Gmail

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(gecko.handlerService.schemes.webcal.0.name;30 Boxes). Wonder how it's invoked, or if that can be changed to Google Calendar?

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Wonder how it's invoked, or if that can be changed to Google Calendar? "
@roachfiend: Surely it can using the same method above; the catch is that GCal has to have a URL available that can take a webcal link and handle it correctly, the way that Gmail URL can take a mailto:someone@example.com and turn it into a compose field correctly. Is there one that you know of?

Webapps just have to catch up to take advantage of the new feature, and no doubt they will eventually.

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