Like many small businesses, we use Google Apps for all our Email and Collaboration needs and Firefox being our preferred browser, we’d wanted to teach Firefox to use our Google Apps email to send emails by default. Here are the steps I found from a quick google search :
- Open up Firefox
- type about:config in the address bar and click on ‘I promise’ button to continue.
- in the Filter box, type: gecko.handlerService.allowRegisterFromDifferentHost
- If the value is set to False, double click on the line to turn it to ‘true’
- in the address bar again, copy and paste these : javascript:window.navigator.registerProtocolHandler(”mailto”,”https://mail.google.com/a/yourdomain.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s”,”Google Apps”)
- Remember to replace yourdomain.com with your domain. Also, make sure those are double quotes. After pasting into the address bar, just delete each double quote character and retype them as double quote again – to be sure.
- Hit Enter while still in the address bar.
- Goto Edit/Preferences or Tools/Options – depending upon your version of Firefox
- Goto Applications
- Find ‘mailto’ in the list and click on the dropdown – it should now have an entry called ‘Google Apps’. Pick this, click Close.
- Goto a website and pick File/Send Link – it should open up your Google Apps email (assuming you’re already logged into the Google Apps account).
