Here has been a few months I have no email client installed on my PC (except at work or using Outlook), I only use webmail now Gmail.

The problem when you want to send an email by clicking on a mailto link (a link that, when clicked opens a submission form with the mail recipient as defined on the same link) in a web page is that the application mail address registered in the OS opens by default (Outlook, Evolution, etc..).

I was looking for how to use Gmail by default and I found this handy little procedure:

1) Log into your Gmail account

2) Copy the following code in the address bar of any Gmail page open, and validate:

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

3) Accept the addition of the application that appears in the notification

Well, now by clicking on a mailto link the submission form will be that of Gmail, a small test to convince you by clicking the following link:

Send mail to Eric

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