Comments on: Making email links open with Google Apps Mail / Gmail

By: Anthony

Anthony — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 20:10:58 +0000

I have wndows 7 and the Folder Options menu is a little bit different.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:07:49 +0000

Are there any suggestions for how to make this work specifically for Chromium being used on an Ubuntu Linux system? We have been searching and trying for weeks and have not found a workable solution. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

By: Sam Morris

Sam Morris — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 02:12:42 +0000

I believe it's still possible to achieve this in Windows 7, however Microsoft has removed functionality making it harder. When I moved to Windows 7 I found Google Apps Standalone, which essentially installs Chrome application shortcuts for each Google service (mail,docs, etc). You can download it here http://pack.google.com/intl/en/pack_installer.htm... Also there's Google Toolbar, which can set Gmail as the default mail client, and there's Gmail Notifier http://toolbar.google.com/gmail-helper/notifier_w... Alternatively, if you're in Firefox you could also edit your settings (about:config in the address bar). I was able to edit the default Gmail url so it opened with Google Apps rather than Gmail. I would recommend avoiding registry editing, but there's various threads on Google help about what values to add/modify.

By: Sam Morris

Sam Morris — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 01:55:39 +0000

By: Martin Cleaver

Martin Cleaver — Mon, 24 May 2010 17:12:14 +0000

No idea what to click in Windows 7…

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By: jesse

jesse — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:05:31 +0000

this is awesome, i have wanted to for years figure this out…..thank you so much

By: Michael Williams

Michael Williams — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:24:29 +0000

Thanks for this post, worked like a charm in Windows 7 for me.

Regarding editing the file type entries: It is a shame that Microsoft took out the ability to do that, but you can do it with a third party tool. I used “Creative Element Power Tools”, File Type Doctor.

By: Sam Morris

Sam Morris — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:32:08 +0000

@xceptional I had a feeling…from the screenshots I saw, it looks they made it so 75% of the functionality is lost.

By: xceptional

xceptional — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:25:46 +0000

good article. Vista handles this differently and you can not change the protocol handler for MAILTO the way you can in XP.