Make GMail your default email client (Firefox only)

A little trick for all you GMail lovers out there using Firefox (you should be using Firefox, or at least Chrome).

So, why do you need this trick?  Say your browsing along on your favorite website and you see a link to contact someone.  That email address highlighted in blue and underlined is ever so inviting but when you click it, what happens?  Some useless Outlook/Mail application pops up.  Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to click that link and have Firefox automatically open GMail and compose a message?  Yes, yes it would.

Steps:

1.  Make sure Firefox is fully updated (if not, click here to download latest)
2.  go to Tools > Options, select the Applications tab
3.  search for mail
4.  select Use Gmail from the list of actions associated with the mailto protocol
5.  click OK to save the settings.