Clicking on Mail to links opens Gmail instead of Eudora

I love Firefox - I've had it installed for a year or more but suddenly
it has changed to start acting like a Microsoft product. In the past,
when I clicked on mail to links, my defualt mail application was opened
- Eudora. Suddenly, I click on a mail to link and Gmail opens. I didn't
install any new software, extensions, preferences or anything. It
suddenly started behaving in this odd way.

My troubleshooting so far includes:
I went the route of Tools-Folder Options-File Types but there's nothing
in there for Mail to.
I loaded the same page in IE and clicked on the same link and Eudora
opened so my change is not global, just in Firefox.
In Firefox Options-Downloads-View and Edit Files, there is no reference
to Mail to command.

Any help would be appreciated. If this is not the correct forum,
apologies and please direct me to a better place to post this.

Thanks
Dave

 

Open IE, then click on Tools, Internet Options, Programs tab, and in
the email section, select the program you want. Does this work now?

 

Open IE, then click on Tools, Internet Options, Programs tab, and in
the email section, select the program you want. Does this work now?

 

NO. The problem is in Firefox, not in IE. The email tab in IE is set to
Eudora and if I click on a link in IE, Eudora opens. If I click on a
link in Firefox, Gmail opens. I have updates to Firefox automatically
loaded so maybe it updated a few days ago and caused this bug

 

NO. The problem is in Firefox, not in IE. The email tab in IE is set to
Eudora and if I click on a link in IE, Eudora opens. If I click on a
link in Firefox, Gmail opens. I have updates to Firefox automatically
loaded so maybe it updated a few days ago and caused this bug

 

NO. The problem is in Firefox, not in IE. The email tab in IE is set to
Eudora and if I click on a link in IE, Eudora opens. If I click on a
link in Firefox, Gmail opens. I have updates to Firefox automatically
loaded so maybe it updated a few days ago and caused this bug

 

NO. The problem is in Firefox, not in IE. The email tab in IE is set to
Eudora and if I click on a link in IE, Eudora opens. If I click on a
link in Firefox, Gmail opens. I have updates to Firefox automatically
loaded so maybe it updated a few days ago and caused this bug

 

did you follow the instructions I gave you? And don't say its not in
IE. Follow what I said.

 

did you follow the instructions I gave you? And don't say its not in
IE. Follow what I said.

 

On 7 Jul 2006 07:19:07 -0700, in message <>,

If there is nothing in Tools -> Folder Options -> File Types for
the following

Extensions = (NONE)
File Types = URL:MailTo Protocol

then your Windows registry could be messed up.

Would you be happy to check further using the Windows registry editor?

IE uses a different part of the Windows registry to other apps.

Try this test instead...


Go to Run -> Start and enter a mailto URL like this

mailto:

Which application opens to handle the outgoing email?

Check this instead

In Firefox, enter

about:config

in the URL bar. Then enter

mailto

in the "Filter" field which appears.

What preference names and values are shown?

You should at the very least have the following

Preference name Type Value
---------------------------------------- ------- -----
network.protocol-handler.external.mailto boolean true

 

On 7 Jul 2006 07:19:07 -0700, in message <>,

If there is nothing in Tools -> Folder Options -> File Types for
the following

Extensions = (NONE)
File Types = URL:MailTo Protocol

then your Windows registry could be messed up.

Would you be happy to check further using the Windows registry editor?

IE uses a different part of the Windows registry to other apps.

Try this test instead...


Go to Run -> Start and enter a mailto URL like this

mailto:

Which application opens to handle the outgoing email?

Check this instead

In Firefox, enter

about:config

in the URL bar. Then enter

mailto

in the "Filter" field which appears.

What preference names and values are shown?

You should at the very least have the following

Preference name Type Value
---------------------------------------- ------- -----
network.protocol-handler.external.mailto boolean true

 

Thanks Ralph, that fixed it. It was the about:config in the Firefox
address bar that did it.

 

Thanks Ralph, that fixed it. It was the about:config in the Firefox
address bar that did it.

 

On 8 Jul 2006 08:11:56 -0700, in message <>,

Good to hear. Thanks for the feedback.

 

On 8 Jul 2006 08:11:56 -0700, in message <>,

Good to hear. Thanks for the feedback.