email from browser cause "email to:" to run across top of screen
Whenever I click on an email icon on a browser (Firefox) link the words "email to:" run across the top of the screen like a banner.
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Firefox should list Thunderbird if it is set up as the default mail client on Windows. Does this help: Make Thunderbird the Default Mail Client?
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Hi AZCowboy, I'm not sure I understand your description. The top of Firefox can show any of these things:
- Title bar, showing the title of the current tab
- Menu bar (File, Edit, View, etc.)
- Tabs bar, showing the open tabs in the current window
Where does email to: appear?
If the problem is that you get numerous tabs opening, make sure you have not assigned Firefox as the application to handle mailto: links because that creates a kind of loop where Firefox keeps sending itself the link over and over. This article goes into more detail on that problem: Firefox repeatedly opens empty tabs or windows after you click on a link.
Do you have a particular program or website in mind to handle email links? Let's see whether we can help you set that up.
I use Thunderbird as my email handler. The article you referenced sounds like what is happening though it just started and I don't know of anything I did to cause it to start doing what it is doing. What should I do now?
Could you change your mailto handler to "Always ask" on the Options page. Then when you click an email link, Firefox should show a box of choices such as Thunderbird and Gmail, and you can choose Thunderbird there and hopefully it will work. The following article describes where to make the change: Change the program used to open email links.
WOW!! OK - I finally got there but, the only options listed were Always ask, Use Firefox (default), Use Gmail, Use Yahoo or Other. Thunderbird isn't listed. Wht should I do now? Somehow this got changed within the last couple of Firefox updates because I certainly didn't go through any of this to change what was working just great. Thanks.
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Firefox should list Thunderbird if it is set up as the default mail client on Windows. Does this help: Make Thunderbird the Default Mail Client?
Thank you so very much. I don't know how things got changed but they did. The main thing is that it is working now and it has been a learning experience for me. This is exactly why I am using Firefox - because of folks like you. Thanks again so very much.