Comments on: Using Gmail as the default mail application in Mac OS X

By: Paolo Gallina

Paolo Gallina — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:39:07 +0000

Thanks for this!

By: eve

eve — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:32:30 +0000

ODD, undesirable result:
When I click on a mailto, now firefox opens many, many, many “untitled” tabs.
Any thoughts on what setting I may have setup improperly?
Eve

By: Johannes

Johannes — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:20:07 +0000

David, in Firefox Preferences, choose Applications. In the Content type column, find mailto. Choose Gmail as the default mailto-application for Firefox. And you are done!

(As far as I can see, in the latest firefox updates, gmail is now included as a possible default mailto choice. But firefox does not come with gmail set as the default mailto application. To set it, just follow the instruction above.

It seems that point 1) above:
-Set Firefox to use Gmail as the default application for mailto: links.
should be replaced with my instructions here.)

Setting Firefox as the OSX default for mailto works fine.

Johannes

By: David Cherryholmes

David Cherryholmes — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:47:27 +0000

After following your instructions, when I click on a mailto link in firefox, it opens up hundreds of empty tabs, locking up the browser. Any idea what I might have done wrong? Using leopard and 3.5.2.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:18:56 +0000

Worked beautifully thank you.

By: MDA

MDA — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:35:06 +0000

I think I set up a fake account in Mail so that I could follow step 2 above. Then I deleted the fake Mail account.

Kinda lame, but it worked.

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:55:58 +0000

Step 1 works great, but I can’t accomplish step 2 because I haven’t set up Mail. It pops up a “Welcome to Mail” dialog that expects me to configure Mail to check an email account, and clicking Cancel quits Mail. The Mail->Preferences menu item is grayed out.

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:31:45 +0000

Works nicely. Thanks!