Comments on: Configure Firefox to use Gmail or Google Apps for MailTo Links

By: Neil

Neil — Wed, 19 May 2010 16:23:32 +0000

Followed your instructions as we use google apps for our work email and it worked perfectly. Cheeers! I love how there is always someone somewhere on the internet that has published the soluntion to any problem. Thanks!

By: jane

jane — Wed, 12 May 2010 05:42:47 +0000

Where do i find the edit preferences to undo it?

By: PF Mac

PF Mac — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 03:41:57 +0000

Worked just great for G. Apps gmail. Thanks

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:39:40 +0000

Thanks Coyote! Your suggestion is just what I needed for FF 3.6.3 on Win 7.

Anyone know how I can get the Google reply to pop up in a new window the way it does when you hold the shift key and click on the Compose link?

By: Coyote

Coyote — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:35:30 +0000

I had to change network.protocol-hndler.expose.mailto and network.protocol-handler.external.mailto both to true before I got the Add Application confirmation, But now it works….

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:46:13 +0000

You might want to update this post, as I used it .. however .. the latest version of Firefox 3.5 already has Gmail in its list .. and thankfully your insertion of the Google Apps handler had a slightly different name for the list. You used GMail for Google Apps while firefox used Gmail for regular gmail. Note the uppercase and lowercase “m”.

Regardless I would just change the google apps javascript pasty to go something like this instead:

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

So that if someone is selecting them from the Firefox Tools> Applications Settings > Mailto: handler .. it will show up in the list as:

Google Apps GMail

Thanks,

// mike

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By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:09:15 +0000

This rocks, thanks for making this so easy and helpful. You make wannabee techies like me look good.

By: Sam Lesher

Sam Lesher — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:02:50 +0000

Thanks for the heads up, sghiassy. The post should be fixed now.

By: Lucian

Lucian — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:53:37 +0000

Thanks for the note, sghiassy. Have found this tutorial on a zillion blogs, but each and every one of them had the double quote problem. Darn wordpress.