Note: An alternative way to get to the Options dialog is to press ALT+T to open the old Tools menu and then choose Options. Open the Menu by clicking on the “hamburger” icon (3 lines above each other) in the top right corner-> Options-> tab Applications-> click on the “mailto” drop down list and select: Use Microsoft Outlook. To set Firefox to respect your default mail client settings in Windows again when clicking on a mailto link choose This is a different settings than having Outlook set as your default mail client in Windows.įirefox and really old versions of Opera both have an option to override the system default mail client (in your case: Outlook) and link it to a web mail service or another mail application instead.Ĭhrome, the latest version of Opera and (of course) Internet Explorer respect the default mail client settings which you have configured in Windows. It sounds like you are not using Internet Explorer as your default browser then or may not have set the mailto protocol in Windows to use Outlook. How can I get mailto links to open with Outlook again? I've already made sure that Outlook has been set as my default mail client in Windows, but mailto links still bring me to Gmail. Now, when I click on a mailto link, it brings up the Gmail webpage while I don't even have a Gmail account. When clicking on a mailto link, Outlook used to get opened and I could write my email.

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