{"id":4208,"date":"2017-02-10T00:03:29","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T05:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.filepuma.com\/?p=4208"},"modified":"2024-06-18T05:03:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T12:03:10","slug":"how-to-change-firefoxs-default-email-handling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/how-to-change-firefoxs-default-email-handling\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Change Firefox\u2019s Default Email Handling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #494949\">Clicking a mailto: link in any browser typically opens up the default email client your PC got bundled with (usually Windows or Mac Mail). But Firefox allows you to change how these links are handled in just a few steps. Once changed, you\u2019ll open all mailto: links in the client of your choice, whether it\u2019s Gmail on the web, or a third-party client, like Inky.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.laptopmag.com\/images\/wp\/purch-api\/incontent\/2017\/01\/hero_3051131485554589.png\" alt=\"hero\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #494949\">1.<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;color: #494949\">\u00a0Open Firefox<\/strong><span style=\"color: #494949\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #494949\">2.<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;color: #494949\">\u00a0Click the hamburger menu<\/strong><span style=\"color: #494949\">\u00a0at the right of the address bar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.laptopmag.com\/images\/wp\/purch-api\/incontent\/2017\/01\/hamburger.png\" alt=\"hamburger menu\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #494949\">3.\u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;color: #494949\">Click the Options icon<\/strong><span style=\"color: #494949\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.laptopmag.com\/images\/wp\/purch-api\/incontent\/2017\/01\/options_3051131485554589.png\" alt=\"options icon\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #494949\">4.\u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;color: #494949\">Choose Applications<\/strong><span style=\"color: #494949\">\u00a0from the sidebar at the left.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.laptopmag.com\/images\/wp\/purch-api\/incontent\/2017\/01\/applications.png\" alt=\"applications\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #494949\">5.<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;color: #494949\">\u00a0Type mailto<\/strong><span style=\"color: #494949\">\u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;color: #494949\">into the search bar<\/strong><span style=\"color: #494949\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;color: #494949\">then click the link that remains below<\/strong><span style=\"color: #494949\">\u00a0to highlight it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.laptopmag.com\/images\/wp\/purch-api\/incontent\/2017\/01\/mailto.png\" alt=\"mailto\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #494949\">6.\u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;color: #494949\">Choose an option from the drop down menu<\/strong><span style=\"color: #494949\">\u00a0with an email client you\u2019d prefer to use.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.laptopmag.com\/images\/wp\/purch-api\/incontent\/2017\/01\/client.png\" alt=\"choose your mail client\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #494949\">Alternatively, you can add your own if your preference isn\u2019t listed. If you have the client installed, it\u2019ll typically display in this window.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clicking a mailto: link in any browser typically opens up the default email client your PC got bundled with (usually Windows or Mac Mail). But Firefox allows you to change how these links are handled in just a few steps. Once changed, you\u2019ll open all mailto: links in the client of your choice, whether it\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-browsers-plugins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4872,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208\/revisions\/4872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}