Firefox 3 & Mail Et Al

[A_Traveller]

I was looking at a few features in FF and noticed that there is an option to access web based mail systems, not just the PC version {e.g. Outlook & Thunderbird}.

Tools -> Options -> Applications tab ->scroll down to mailto and one can select yahoo mail out of the box

To add another service, :-

Type about:config in address bar and confirm you will be careful

Type gecko.handlerservice in search

Now double click gecko.handlerServiceAllowRegisterFromDifferentHost to set it to True

Now type this {copy paste advised}

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

into the address bar.

Click add application.

The next time you click on a mailto link on a web page FF will offer the option of GMail and you can select this as your default by checking the 'Remember my choice.. ' box.

Naturally yo need to be logged into GMail for this to function seamlessly, but if you are this will create a mail within GMail. If not logged into GMail then it should generate a login prompt.

Regards

Edited July 2, 2008 by A_Traveller