In Firefox is there a way to make it so that if there's a link to e-mail somebody (code:<a href=mailto:email@address.com>Text</a>) and I click on it, it will go to my Gmail account's "New Message" form as opposed to opening Outlook and bugging me to set up an account? It would make things vastly easier for me if I could.

Hi,
Download the free Google Talk chat application and open the options dialog. You'll see a general setting that says "Open GMail When I click on Email Links" - select that and exit.

This will set Gmail as your default mailto: handler. This means that when you click on any hyperlinked email address, a Gmail compose window will open in your default web browser. The To: address field will be prepopulated with email address.
This trick works if you are in IE - the GMail compose window would open inside Firefox.
To make this work inside Firefox, implement this small change:
1. Type about:config in the address bar.
2. Type mailto: and hit enter.
3. You'll see a setting called network.protocol-handler.external.mailto that is set to false. Double click it to toggle the value to true.

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Thanks!

Works for IE too

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