Google: Chrome should use Gmail as my default mailto!

By Steve Poland   •   January 28, 2009

Dear WTF,

I can’t believe Google hasn’t fixed this mess. I’m using Vista and it loads up Outlook when I click on mailto links in Chrome; apparently it taps into Vista’s default. OK, so I want to use Gmail [specifically Gmail in Chrome] — why isn’t there an easy way to do this, rather than having to edit my registry?

Anyone know an easy fix for this? I’m surprised Google hasn’t put this as an option in their ‘Options’ link in Chrome.

Sincerely,

-STP




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Comments

3 Responses to “Google: Chrome should use Gmail as my default mailto!”

  1. MyAvatars 0.2 Dan on February 4th, 2009 8:24 pm (perm link)

    you need ChromeMailer: http://skaelede.hu/?e=chromemailer&lg=en

    –Dan

  2. MyAvatars 0.2 Nate on February 18th, 2009 3:14 am (perm link)

    I hacked a way with some vbscript and registry edits. Check out my website for the details.

  3. MyAvatars 0.2 S. Navpreet Jatana on March 2nd, 2009 4:42 pm (perm link)

    Until Google fixes Chrome, the following site may have the temporary fix using Gmail Notifier?
    http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=10966

    I know… Google needs to fix Chrome.

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