Getting Gmail to handle all mailto: links with registerProtocolHandler

If you use Gmail you may become frustrated when you click a mailto: link by accident and now your desktop client of Outlook or Mail starts up

Thanks to navigatorregisterProtocolHandler() ( which we’ve covered here before ) you can wire up Gmail as your default mail client for all mailto: links in Chrome and Firefox

Here’s how:

First open up a Gmail tab You must do this from the Gmail tab not your html5rocks one :)
Open your javascript console ( cmd-opt-j on Mac ctrl-shift-j …..




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