Set Gmail as the default e-mail client in Google Chrome

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This tip should also work for other webmail providers if you know the correct URL to use.

 

Source: updates.html5rocks.com/2012/02/Getting-Gmail-to-handle-all-mailto-links-with-registerProtocolHandler (Via)

 

1. Launch a new browser window and open up Gmail.
   
2. Open the Javascript console by pressing Ctrl-Shift-J on Windows or Command+Option+J on Mac OS X and then paste in the following:
    
   

   navigator.registerProtocolHandler("mailto","https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s","Gmail");

   
    
   

3. Accept the confirmation at the top of the browser window and try out a mailto link. If you should ever need to remove this setting, you can do so via chrome://settings/handlers.
    
   http://i.imgur.com/52NG2.png