Firefox 3 and Google Apps Email - Default mailto Handling
Firefox 3 has a cool new feature to allow you set default mailto handlers from the preferences. Here is how you can use Google Apps (GAFYD) as the default mailto handler.
1. In Firefox’s address bar, copy and paste the following and hit enter:
about:config
2. Click “I’ll be careful, I promise!� when the warning appears
3. In the “Filter:� field, copy and paste:
gecko.handlerService.allowRegisterFromDifferentHost
4. Double click the found result to change the boolean value from false to true
5. In the address bar, copy and paste the following:
javascript:window.navigator.registerProtocolHandler(”mailto”,”https://mail.google.com/a/yourdomain.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s”,”Google Apps”)
6. Replace “yourdomain.com” with your own Google Apps hosted domain and hit enter
7. Click “Add Application� when it asks you a question
8. go to Edit > Preferences > Applications > mailto
9. Choose “Use Google Apps�
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June 5th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
When I try step 3 there is no field “gecko…” found?…please help
June 16th, 2008 at 1:13 am
likewise. not so helpful unfortunately.
June 18th, 2008 at 10:34 am
This worked for me.
The I had to fix the quotes — it seemed that this blog entry has converted to the fancy quotes and not the plain-old standard ASCII ones required for step 5.
Also, instead of Edit - Preferences it was Tools - Options on my copy of FF3 for step 8.
June 18th, 2008 at 10:44 am
yes the blog formatting screws up the quotes, sorry.
you have Edit-Pref because you aren’t on windows. On Windows it is Tools->Pref
June 23rd, 2008 at 7:06 pm
I had issues probably because I had tried “Better Gmail 2″ first. I had to change network.protocol-hndler.expose.mailto and network.protocol-handler.external.mailto before I got the Add Application confirmation, But now it works….