Re: Default Email Client

[Guest diane in seattle]

Re: Default Email Client

 

I use Gmail & love it. I use

Mozilla Firefox as my browser.

So I don't use any Microsoft

products for either of these

tasks.

 

It used to be, when I was brows-

ing, if I clicked on a mailto link,

a new tab would open with a

blank Gmail compose box, & I'd

type in that & send it off.

 

A while back, when I did this,

nothing happened for about 15

seconds. Then suddenly, 58

Internet Explorer blank windows

would pop up & cascade all over

my screen.

 

It doesn't happen on every web-

site; in fact, I think it only happens

when I try to reply to a Craigslist

ad.

 

When I've tried to set up Gmail as

my client in the control panel, it is

not there. Nor is it there when I try

to configure IE's internet options.

 

Seems to me this trouble would

stop if I could tell WinXP that I'm

using Gmail & no other email program.

 

This thread was the closest one I

could find to the problem. I do get

a message to the effect that the

default mail client is not installed.

 

Can you help?

 

diane in seattle

[Guest PA Bear]

Re: Default Email Client

 

Re: Default Email Client

 

You should begin your own, new thread, Diane.

 

Multiple browser windows open when you click on a mailto: link:

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/MailtoProtocol.htm

 

Gmail: Help Center - How do I make Gmail my default mail application?:

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=10966

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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)

MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)

AumHa VSOP & Admin; DTS-L.org

 

 

diane in seattle wrote:

> I use Gmail & love it. I use

> Mozilla Firefox as my browser.

> So I don't use any Microsoft

> products for either of these

> tasks.

>

> It used to be, when I was brows-

> ing, if I clicked on a mailto link,

> a new tab would open with a

> blank Gmail compose box, & I'd

> type in that & send it off.

>

> A while back, when I did this,

> nothing happened for about 15

> seconds. Then suddenly, 58

> Internet Explorer blank windows

> would pop up & cascade all over

> my screen.

>

> It doesn't happen on every web-

> site; in fact, I think it only happens

> when I try to reply to a Craigslist

> ad.

>

> When I've tried to set up Gmail as

> my client in the control panel, it is

> not there. Nor is it there when I try

> to configure IE's internet options.

>

> Seems to me this trouble would

> stop if I could tell WinXP that I'm

> using Gmail & no other email program.

>

> This thread was the closest one I

> could find to the problem. I do get

> a message to the effect that the

> default mail client is not installed.

>

> Can you help?

>

> diane in seattle