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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 ofhttp:)?
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.
