The Florida Belts

Since I recently start using Firefox 3 and even more recently using Google Apps For Your Domain (GAFYD) as my primary email client, there has been one little annoyance I wanted to fix.

When coming across a mailto: link (a link you click on in a website to start a new email message) it would not bring up my proper email. There is a Gmail option in Firefox 3, but that is only for the public hosted @gmail.com addresses. I need something for GAFYD email, so I began searching.

I came across this blog article which solved my problem perfectly. I decided to reformat the instructions slightly and post below.

1. In the Firefox address bar type

   about:config

   and press enter.

2. Click the “I’ll be careful, I promise!” button.
3. In the “Filter: ” field type

   gecko.handlerService.allowRegisterFromDifferentHost

   and press enter.

4. Double click the found result to change the value from “false” to “true”.
5. In the address bar type

   javascript:window.navigator.registerProtocolHandler("mailto","https://mail.google.com/a/example.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s","Google Apps")

6. Replace example.com with your Google Apps domain and hit enter.
7. A banner should appear below your address bar and tab bar, ask you if you want to Add Google Apps to as an application for your mailto links, Click “Add Application” on the right.
8. Double click the allowRegisterFromDifferentHost to change the value from “true” to “false” (restoring the default value and reversing the change made in step 4).
9. In Firefox, select Tools menu, then Options…
10. Click on Applications at top of Options window.
11. Ensure mailto says “Use Google Apps”.  If not click on the line and use arrow on right to select “Use Google Apps”

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