Use Gmail as your default email client in Firefox

Posted by Geoff Jennings on June 16th, 2009

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It’s always frustrated me when clicking a “mailto” link in a browser, and it tries to open Outlook.  I use GMail for all my email.  Turns out that since Firefox 3.0, there is a fix.

* go to Tools > Options
* select the Applications tab
* search for mail
* select Use Gmail from the list of actions associated with the mailto protocol
* click OK to save the settings.

Thanks to the Google System Blog for pointing this out.

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/06/set-gmail-as-default-email-client.html

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