Firefox is my browser of choice for many reasons and one of those reasons is the ability to choose how it handles mailto: links on a webpage. While mailto: links are far less common nowadays then when they were just a few years ago, there are still plenty of websites out there that use them.

Firefox had chosen to use Windows Mail as my default email client ever since I had installed it on my computer. I hadn’t and won’t ever setup Windows Mail or use it so this has become a somewhat minor inconvenience every now and then. Anyways, onto the good stuff!

Open up Firefox if you haven’t already. Click on Tools, then click on Options. Select the Applications icon in the popup window and then type in mailto in the search box. Firefox will automatically do a search and find what we are looking for. From here, all that I had to do was to click on the dropdown box, select Gmail as the default mailto: client and click OK.

You can actually select several other different mail clients to use with Firefox which makes this a really useful feature even if you don’t necessarily use Gmail.