Firefox 3 has brought about a whole slew of new features and abilities, one of them is being able to register webapps as link handlers. What is a link handler? In this example, when a web user clicks an email address a properly configured computer will open the default email program with the clicked email address already in an edit window, ready for composing. New to Firefox 3 is allowed this mailto: link to open webmail rather the typical email desktop program. By default, and strangely enough given Mozilla and Google’s ties, Firefox only supports mailto: links for Yahoo mail. Here’s what you can do about that in order to support Gmail.


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Now the next time you happen across a mailto: link Firefox will ask you which application you want to use. Choose Gmail and check Remember my choice for mailto links to make the change permanent.
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