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

By: sam

sam — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 02:54:41 +0000

Thank you. Worked like a charm (ff 3.6 on win7)

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:07:49 +0000

I couldn’t get these instructions to work on the latest update of Firefox (though they’ve been a life saver many times in the past), but found these instructions which finally worked: http://www.westsidepirate.com/index.php/2010/01/16/mozilla-firefox-3-5-google-apps-email-as-default-mailto-handler/

By: pop up

pop up — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:54:46 +0000

Many thanks for the instructions,some times make me confuse.

By: pendle

pendle — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 10:54:05 +0000

I’m “bumping” Chris’s comment of April 6.
The new mailto link works perfectly except that it opens in the same window (target=”_top”), whereas the default opens in a pop-up.
This means that whenever I send a mail in this way, I have to remember to press the browser “back” button to return to the web site I was on, instead of the more intuitive action of closing a pop-up.
How do I set that link to open as a pop-up?

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