If you are using Firefox it is also easy thing to do. In the URL, type ‘chrome://settings/handlers’ and select Gmail as your mail handler. Later if you change your mind to open your mailto: links in Gmail, then you have the option to change it.
Either you choose ‘allow’ or ‘deny’, in both ways you are set.
A popup will be shown asking allow, deny or ignore. Open the Chrome browser and click on the double diamond icon next to the bookmark (star) icon. If you are a Chrome user then this thing is incredibly easy to set default mailto: links in Gmail. The actually thing to do is to cut out Mail altogether and make the changes to the browser. But if you want mailto: links to open in Gmail on Firefox or safari or another browser, then doing so will not work. Many of us will simply leads to a simple solution that what you have to do is to just open up the mail preferences and select the default email reader from that.īy doing so, email will simply be opened in another email client. If you desire to use Gmail or even some other email service, you need to make few changes.Īt the broader side, the problem is not opening the links in some other email service like outlook or Thunderbird. While browsing on Mac, if you ever click mailto, you will experience that you will be taken to the default Mail app.
