You can still find Email link in the File menu.

• Tap the Alt key or press F10 to show the Menu bar.

You can also find the Email Link button in the Customize palette and drag if to the "3-bar" Firefox menu button drop-down list on on a toolbar.

• "3-bar" Firefox menu button > Customize
• View > Toolbars > Customize

• https://support.mozilla.org/kb/customize-firefox-controls-buttons-and-toolbars

These solutions don't work. The email link opens a new tab. It doesn't email the webpage I am on.

Sorry, that has never been a standard feature in Firefox. Over the years there have been a number of different 3rd party add-ons which added that feature to Firefox, but AFAIK it has been quite awhile since I have seen a compatible add-on.

Firefox does allow for Email Link ... for a website; is that the feature you have had been using? If so, that is available in the File menu. Hit the Alt key or F10, then select File.

If that isn't working, see this - Change the program used to open email links

No that is not what I have been using. It has always been available until the last update. As far as it being a third party add on I am not sure if we are talking about the same thing or not to begin with but if we are users just don't give a shit where it comes from. We just use the browser as it comes to us from your updates. Previously I could select file and then there was an option to "email page" and this feature email the current page you were on. This is the feature I am referring to.

" Previously I could select file and then there was an option to "email page" and this feature email the current page you were on. This is the feature I am referring to."

Sorry, as I said that has never been a standard feature in Firefox. As far as "users just don't give a whit where it comes from" - what can I say, other than to recommend that you figure out what you installed to add that feature to Firefox and see if an updated version of that add-on is available.

I did a quick search at the Addons.Mozilla.com website and didn't find an add-on that was compatible beyond Firefox 12. I have no idea what you have been using in more recent versions of Firefox.

Email Link Feature

Using "Email Link" should send your email program or webmail site a string of information, putting the URL of the page in the message body and the title of the page in the subject. Unfortunately, this does not work with all email programs/webmail sites, but if you were able to use "Email Link" successfully before, then there's a good chance you will be able to use it again.

First, however, you need to confirm that you have set up your email program or webmail site as your email handler in Firefox. Ed posted the link for that step: Change the program used to open email links. The problem here is that sometimes Firefox does not already have your webmail site on the list. Then you need a custom solution.

Disabled Extensions?

Would you mind checking to see whether you have any disabled extension that could be relevant to your regular mail site? You can open the Add-ons page using either:

• Ctrl+Shift+a
• "3-bar" menu button (or Tools menu) > Add-ons

In the left column, click Extensions. Scroll to the bottom to find disabled extensions on a gray background.

I have not and do not add anything to Firefox so I am not sure if we are talking about the same thing. I have Firefox 26 on a laptop and I can go to file then select email link and then I can send the link via email. Email link with version 30 brings up a new tab.

Do you get the right email program or webmail site coming up with a mailto link?

jscher2000@example.com

If not, please see the article linked above about pointing Firefox's email functions to your mail program or webmail site in the Options dialog.

Yahoo and gmail are the two choices neither of which I use. However, this route is way more steps than it should be.

Hi monk51, yes, if you use something else like Hotmail/Live/Outlook, you need a custom solution. Do you want to mention what site it is? Or you could compare your laptop to see how you set it up there.

That's what I keep trying to get across. I did not set anything up on the laptop nor have I ever done anything to any versions of Firefox I have ever had. I use it the way it comes with no modifications.

Well, clearly, it is currently broken. So you can revert Firefox to its default handling for mail links by deleting the settings file that stores that information -- it stores all the application preferences for what to use to handle different kinds of non-HTML content, such as PDFs. Hopefully then when you have the default setting again it will just work.

To do that: Open your current Firefox settings (AKA Firefox profile) folder using either

• "3-bar" menu button > "?" button > Troubleshooting Information
• Help menu > Troubleshooting Information

In the first table on the page, click the "Show Folder" button

Leaving that window open, switch back to Firefox and Exit, either:

• "3-bar" menu button > "power" button
• File menu > Exit

Pause while Firefox finishes its cleanup, then rename mimeTypes.rdf to something like mimeTypes.old

Start Firefox back up again. Any improvement in how Email Link works?

Unfortunately that made no difference. I am done. Spent way too much time on this problem already.