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

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

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: 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.