Last year, Firefox 3 added the option to associate protocols with web applications . A common way to link to mail addresses is using the mailto: protocol, so you'll often find links like security@google.com .
When Firefox 3 was released, Yahoo Mail was the only webmail service that could be selected directly and the instructions for adding Gmail were complicated . Gmail has been added to the list of mail applications and it's easy to set it as the default email client in Firefox and open all the mailto: links in Gmail, without installing extensions:
* For Firefox 4+, click the Firefox drop-down menu and select Options > Options . For Firefox 3.0-3.6, go to Tools > Options .
* select Use Gmail from the list of actions associated with the mailto protocol
* click OK to save the settings.
If you want to set Gmail as the default mail client for your computer and not just for Firefox, install Google Talk , Gmail Notifier for Windows or Google Notifier for Mac .
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