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How to Stop FireFox mailto Pop-Ups?

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  • Last reply by FredMcD

Ive researched this and went into the settings, I added the mailto link app already. But It keeps popping up.

See screen shot below

Ive researched this and went into the settings, I added the mailto link app already. But It keeps popping up. See screen shot below

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Can't get the image uploaded to work, just keeps loading So I posted it on Imgur: https://imgur.com/a/hhnAafW

Modified by JOEY61

Can't get the image uploaded to work on the forums, so I uploaded it to imgur: https://imgur.com/a/hhnAafW https://imgur.com/a/hhnAafW

I could not see what you were trying to show because the item was too small to make out. Here it is.


Type about:preferences#applications<enter> in the address box. In the search box, enter Mail. What does it show?

FredMcD said

I could not see what you were trying to show because the item was too small to make out. Here it is. Type about:preferences#applications<enter> in the address box. In the search box, enter Mail. What does it show?

The image link is not viewable? Here is the original, its large: https://i.imgur.com/417eCUO.jpeg It should be large enough to see

That screenshot shows what comes up when I type mail, the settings section for mailto

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FredMcD said

I could not see what you were trying to show because the item was too small to make out. Here it is. Type about:preferences#applications<enter> in the address box. In the search box, enter Mail. What does it show?

The image link is not viewable? Here is the original, its large: https://i.imgur.com/417eCUO.jpeg It should be large enough to see

That screenshot shows what comes up when I type mail as you instructed, it shows the settings section for mailto and you can see the app is already there listed as an option

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FredMcD said

I could not see what you were trying to show because the item was too small to make out. Here it is. Type about:preferences#applications<enter> in the address box. In the search box, enter Mail. What does it show?

The image link is not viewable? Here is the original, its large: https://i.imgur.com/417eCUO.jpeg It should be large enough to see

That screenshot shows what comes up when I type mail, the settings section for mailto. And the app is already listed

Select mailto. Then select what you want as the default.

FredMcD said

Select mailto. Then select what you want as the default.

I have Thats this issue. A default has been selected and i also added the given mail application of mailbox dot org

It is a script on the page that triggers the notification to add this website as a mailto choice. Websites can't check whether you have accepted this and thus can show this every time. You can try to set a cookie allow exception for this domain (origin) in case the website stores this in a cookie to see if that stops it.

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cor-el said

It is a script on thee that triggers the notification to add this website as a mailto choice. Websites can't check whether you have accepted this and thus can show this every time. You can try to set a cookie allow exception for this domain (origin) in case the website stores this in a cookie to see if that stops it.

I see. So the website triggers it, but I'm surprised Firefox doesn't have an ability to turn off/ignore/disable such a prompt. Because the pop up is with in Firefox itself.

Thanks Ill look into that idea though

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