Comments on: Make mailto: links open in gmail in Google Chrome browser (Windows XP & Vista)

By: NK

NK — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:50:08 +0000

AWESOME! Thanks so much!

By: Maarten

Maarten — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:49:33 +0000

Thanks! i made it work with my own domainname coupled to gmail! fantastic tip!

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:10:42 +0000

This is an excellent and well documented tip ! Thanks, it’s just what I needed !

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 05:52:07 +0000

Great hack; thanks for sharing!!!

By: Jürgen

Jürgen — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:49:05 +0000

every time I restart my computer, the gmail as default mail feature is lost.. how do I resolve that or do I need to go thru this process each and every time I turn off my computer.

By: Jürgen

Jürgen — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:24:43 +0000

Hi, love using this fix, the to field and subject line prefill nicely, however I can’t seem to get gmail to load what ever info is supposed to be coded into the body area like outlook does. please advise, thank you!

By: Helldire

Helldire — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:38:42 +0000

Thx.
In my case it works only in simple text mode. Another, Chrome can’t finish to load extended editor and main field is anactive. :\

By: martin

martin — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:14:49 +0000

Cool! I followed the Ubuntu link, thank you!

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:04:46 +0000

Dude awesome tips! I’m in the process of switching from Firefox to Chrome entirely, on Firefox I have it default to GMail and was getting conflicting info on how to do it in Chrome. Lifesaver! Thanks!

By: Brendan Nee

Brendan Nee — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 08:48:42 +0000

Thanks for all the comments and discussion. I updated the content of this post with info from the comments to make it more useful for everyone else.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:56:54 +0000

P.S Google Apps works in XP and Vista flawlessly. This is the easiest fix of them all.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:53:35 +0000

Just install Google Apps. Thats it. When you install it it will ask if you want to use it as your default. As long as you have a gmail account you are good to go. way better than the gmail notifier. If you ever exit the notifier while it is running, then you have to reinstall it if you want it to be the default mailto when you click on an email link on a website. Pain in the but

Google Apps fixes this for good. No BS. DOWN WITH OUTLOOK and its friggin headaches! AHHHHHH!

By: m

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:12:43 +0000

you rock

By: Brendan Nee

Brendan Nee — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:46:50 +0000

Try these instructions on Ubuntu, I haven’t tried them myself but they look promising: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/set-gmail-as-default-mail-client-in-ubuntu/

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:50:26 +0000

And how do I do this in Ubuntu Linux?

By: nicola

nicola — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:39:58 +0000

works, thanks.

By: Debra Watkins

Debra Watkins — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:46:53 +0000

Thanks so much.

By: Gon

Gon — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:29:15 +0000

super! thanks!

By: Marc

Marc — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:56:23 +0000

I use Chrome on my Vista PC, but my wife doesn’t. I was able to set it up so that mailto calls GMail with Chrome solely from my Vista account by following the instructions at this website:

http://a1979shakedown.wordpress.com/2009/04/14/set-mailto-to-use-gmail-in-chrome/

It was very easy. The hardest part for me was figuring out how to properly do the MODIFY from the registry — it turns out I needed to right-click on the “ab (default)” and then choose MODIFY in order to modify the right thing. As soon as I did that, voila, mailto links were calling up GMail in Chrome.

By: bhaal

bhaal — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:05:13 +0000

Works on SRWare Iron too.