Using gmail account to send email when using the mailto: in chrome if user is logged into gmail account.

[g larry]

Several of the social media Google apps allow one to send email to
fiends or links. These links obviously get the mail address from the
friends registration, but is there a way than if I say logged on to
Latitudes and I want to send an email a friend from the desktop
computer I'm working on that Chrome can intercept the mailto://xxx
protocal and use gmail instead (or give an option) instead of the
system's default email system, i.e. if I'm logged in to my gmail
account in the browser at work, when I select a friend's email link I
should be able to select my gmail account, instead of my employer's
outlook account, the default on company computers. Is anyone working
on this?

[PhistucK]

If you mean clicking on an e-mail address within Chrome, there are extensions that make these links go to GMail instead of opening your desktop e-mail client.

If you mean clicking on an e-mail address within the operating system in general, I believe that if you install the GMail Notifier (warning - not compatible with Google Toolbar), it would make them open GMail in your browser. If not, I think the desktop Google Talk client has an option that will make that happen.

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[g larry]

Found it... thanks... it might be handy to have an extension button
(like googel labs on gmail) more prominently displayed or
advertised... but that is another discussion... thanks again!... I'm
embarrassed for not know it was there. Larry

On Nov 5, 10:47 am, PhistucK <phist...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you mean clicking on an e-mail address within Chrome, there are
> extensions that make these links go to GMail instead of opening your desktop
> e-mail client.
> If you mean clicking on an e-mail address within the operating system in
> general, I believe that if you install the GMail

> Notifier<http://toolbar.google.com/gmail-helper/notifier_windows.html>

> (warning
> - not compatible with Google Toolbar), it would make them open GMail in your
> browser. If not, I think the desktop Google

> Talk<http://www.google.com/talk/> client

> has an option that will make that happen.
>

> ☆*PhistucK*

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> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 17:38, g larry <glmason...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Several of the social media Google apps allow one to send email to
> > fiends or links. These links obviously get the mail address from the
> > friends registration, but is there a way than if I say logged on to
> > Latitudes and I want to send an email a friend from the desktop
> > computer I'm working on that Chrome can intercept the mailto://xxx
> > protocal and use gmail instead (or give an option) instead of the
> > system's default email system, i.e. if I'm logged in to my gmail
> > account in the browser at work, when I select a friend's email link I
> > should be able to select my gmail account, instead of my employer's
> > outlook account, the default on company computers. Is anyone working
> > on this?
>
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[Finnur Thorarinsson]

> it might be handy to have an extension button

> more prominently displayed

You mean like this?

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/dbeoemfhkdniadbojeencpkgmobndpai

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[Pierre]

Hello

there is another extension which does make consider Gmail as the
default email client (email to). I am not sure for "email this page" a
part from sending a page. It is "send from gmail"

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/pgphcomnlaojlmmcjmiddhdapjpbgeoc?hl=fr

But it does not work very well.

I FF it is possible taking gmail (or other webmails) a the default
email client by modifying parameters in "about:config". This
possibility doe not exist in Chromium/Chrome. But FF is a heavier
program than Chromium/Chrome.

On 5 nov, 17:06, Finnur Thorarinsson <fin...@chromium.org> wrote:
> > it might be handy to have an extension button
> > more prominently displayed
>

> You mean like this?https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/dbeoemfhkdniadbojeencpkgm...

[Peter Beverloo]

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A new feature which is quite well hidden in the HTML5 specification is
the addition of two new methods[1]:

registerContentHandler (mimeType, url, title);
registerProtocolHandler (scheme, url, title);

Both methods will be available on the navigator object. To focus on
your question, capturing links to mailto: URLs, especially the latter
is interesting: it would allow you to register one of your pages which
has to handle mailto: links. While this probably wouldn't be
interesting for yourself, it would be a feature web-based e-mail
services such as GMail could provide.

Right now, this feature isn't available yet in Chrome, but you might
want to star the following issue to keep track of updates on the
subject.

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=11359

Kind regards,
Peter Beverloo

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/timers.html#custom-handlers

[Pierre]

In any case I have just tried "email this page", it works well, very
nice. Thks

On 6 nov, 10:32, Peter Beverloo <pe...@chromium.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 16:38, g larry <glmason...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Several of the social media Google apps allow one to send email to
> > fiends or links. These links obviously get the mail address from the
> > friends registration, but is there a way than if I say logged on to
> > Latitudes and I want to send an email a friend from the desktop
> > computer I'm working on that Chrome can intercept the mailto://xxx
> > protocal and use gmail instead (or give an option) instead of the
> > system's default email system, i.e. if I'm logged in to my gmail
> > account in the browser at work, when I select a friend's email link I
> > should be able to select my gmail account, instead of my employer's
> > outlook account, the default on company computers. Is anyone working
> > on this?
>
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