Allow Google Chrome (not Chromium) to handle mailto links.
Paste this into Chrome's "Preferences" file, just after "countryid_at_install"
to enable chrome to open mailto
links in gmail. On Ubuntu 12.04 this is located in ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Preferences
.
"custom_handlers": {
"enabled": true,
"registered_protocol_handlers": [ {
"default": true,
"protocol": "mailto",
"title": "Gmail",
"url": "https://mail.google.com/mail/ca/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s"
} ]
},