Change default Mozilla/Netscape email client

Jul 02, '03 11:40:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

If you want to change the email client that Mozilla launches when an email link ("mailto" link) is clicked then:

  1. Launch Mozilla and enter the URL about:config and hit Enter.
  2. Control-click (or right-click) on any list entry and choose the New pop-up menu, and then the String sub-menu. In the first pop-up that appears, put applications.mailto. In the second, put (for example), the path to the OS X Mail application:
    file:///Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS/Mail
  3. Control-click on any entry, and again select New and String. Put applications.mailto.parameters in the first pop-up, then put "%url%" in the second pop-up.
  4. Control-click on any entry, but this time select New and then Boolean. Enter network.protocol-handler.external.mailto in the first pop-up, and then put true in the second.
Restart Mozilla and send Steve Jobs an email to test it out!

[robg adds: A previous hint covered this in a slightly different manner; I think this new hint is a bit clearer on the whole process.]

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