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Use Google Chrome and Gmail for mailto: links

Here’s a useful tip for all of you internet power users…
Go through these questions first.

Are you using GMail to send (most if not all of) your mails?
Are you using Google Chrome under Windows as your default web browser?
Would you link your GMail’s compose mail dialog to popup whenever you click an email link (those beginning with mailto: instead of http:)?

If you score yes three times, then this is for you.

Copy-paste the snippet below into your text editor, replace username with your Windows username and save it as anyfile.reg.


Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00


[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\mailto\shell\open\command]

@="\"C:\\Documents and Settings\\username\\Local Settings\\Application Data\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe\" -app=https://mail.google.com/mail?extsrc=mailto&url=%1"

Google Chrome team was smart enough not to include version specific information in the file path to chrome.exe meaning this hack will work with any of your future versions of Chrome as well.

Fri Sep 5

via www.google.com

Watch this comic explaining in detail features Google Chrome web browser.

Thu Feb 21

The new web browser Opera Mobile 9.5 looks (and works) great!

On a sidenote, sometimes project managers are not the best people to present their product (at least not to the general public). That guy might be considered cool by geek standards (for what he does) but certainly is not to your neighbour Joe or Jane who’d like to surf the web on their mobiles as well. :-)

What’s particularly interesting is the concept of Opera Widgets among which there are some that will surely keep any Facebook addict relaxed and happy.

In my view, mobile widgets are a very viable solution for small-screened mobile devices. What’s a mobile widget? Well, isn’t that a regular application that can be downloaded from a widget library that can be browsed from your desktop web browser as well.

[via DailyMotion]