To Enable Your Macintosh Browser's "MAILTO" Feature
(Makes clicking on email addresses on webpages result in sending an email to that address)


FIREFOX
:
(downloadable from http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/products/download.html?product=firefox-12.0&os=osx&lang=en-US)
  1. In the "Firefox" menu (at upper left), click on "Preferences" which brings up a window panel listing all types of Preferences you can set or tailor to your liking in the Firefox browsers
  2. Click "Applications" (4th icon at top from left)
  3. Scroll down to "mailto" in left column
  4. In right column of the mailto row, click arrow for drop-down menu
  5. Select your email system if you see it listed; then close the Preferences window/panel (click red circle at upper left) and you're done.
  6. If your email system is not listed, click on "Use other…" at bottom of list
  7. This opens your Applications folder where your email program is stored; scroll down, find your email program, click on it, click "Open" at bottom of Applications folder window; then close the Preferences window/panel (click red circle at upper left). You're done.

SAFARI(Safari comes pre-installed on all Macintosh computers)

Google CHROME:  (downloadable from http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/?hl=en&brand=CHMA&utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-ha-na-us-bk&utm_medium=ha)

Mailto is a Chrome extension that lets you configure the mailto: links on Chrome. It currently supports:  Fastmail, Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo mail and Zoho mail.  Once installed, you get to pick your default email service from this list. Once this is selected, you are good to go.  (Installing Chrome extensions requires signing up for a free account after installing Chrome.)

To install Chrome's Mailto extension,
  1. Go to https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/app/1-communication?hl=en-US (the "Social and Communication" section of Chrome extensions)
  2. Click on the "Email and Contacts" subcategory
  3. Scroll down to find "Mailto" and clck "ADD TO CHROME"
  4. To connect your specific email system, under the Windows menu at the top, click "Extensions," then click "Options" under the Mailto extension; click on your email sysem's name.
  5. (Read more about this extension at https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gppbppehiogfokmpligejhaepeopajdf)


FOR OTHER BROWSERS OR TROUBLE WITH INSTRUCTIONS ABOVE



Last modified:  2012 May 23