Comments on: Set Firefox to recognize web mail for mailto links – Video Tip

By: Truax

Truax — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 13:00:14 +0000

Thanks Rick & nonW00t,
This works in 5.0 once you’ve retyped the apostrophes.

By: nonW00t

nonW00t — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:36:44 +0000

uhoh, note the post changed the apostrophes!!! So got to note that on this page. :>

By: nonW00t

nonW00t — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:36:01 +0000

Worked for me, but after fixing the apostrophes to normal ‘ instead of the weird ones on the page!

javascript:navigator.registerProtocolHandler(‘mailto’,’http://mail.live.com/secure/start?action=compose&to=%s','Windows Live Mail’);

…worked in 3.6.4 ok for me (got the add application bar).

By: Rick

Rick — Sun, 02 May 2010 15:22:15 +0000

Thanks for the heads up on this not working with 3.6. I did some searching and haven’t found a solution for that yet. If I find a solution for this, I will post it up here.

By: elwood

elwood — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 02:10:51 +0000

I could not get the string into Firefox version 3.6. Any suggestions?

By: Achal Dave

Achal Dave — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 20:14:48 +0000

Well, your link didn’t work for me, I found this instead. It seems to work:
javascript:navigator.registerProtocolHandler(‘mailto’,’http://hotmail.msn.com/secure/start?action=compose&to=%s','Hotmail‘);

Wonder why yours didn’t work for me… =\