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How do I setup my default E~mail address, have tried tool/options window w/ no luck.

ex-IE8
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I hate to reference microsoft IE8, but they have a default E~mail address that some web sites utilize. So far I have not been able to set-up one on Firefox, the Tool/option/send link does not work for me, nor does the applications window from the above options.

I hate to reference microsoft IE8, but they have a default E~mail address that some web sites utilize. So far I have not been able to set-up one on Firefox, the Tool/option/send link does not work for me, nor does the applications window from the above options.

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the-edmeister
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4.0b2 is over 7 months old and very incomplete. You need to update to the latest 4.0b11 version.

See this support article for that email address issue.
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Changing+the+e-mail+program+used+by+Firefox

ex-IE8
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Thanks but I have already tried that, see the question above, no help from any option on the applications window.

the-edmeister
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The "Setting Firefox's mail client" part of that page didn't help you? Is mailto missing from the Content Type listing in Options > Applications?

ex-IE8
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Thanks the-edmeister ... the mailto is there, just no link to "outlook" or msn, or hotmail. I tried to utilize the "plugin container..." make a yahoo.xml into a msn.xml, but that did not work either. I tried the other command and that takes me to my ProgramFilesx86 folder... I just need a web address to msn or hotmail right? If so, why can't there be a window to enter that???

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I think another user may have the same issue, post about Craigslist... thats where I first experienced the issue, Craigslist uses a default/verify E~mail address and w/out one the user has trouble, or in my case CL ask for a phone number to verify. Which I will not give up.

the-edmeister
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Sorry, but this is getting above my level of experience with Firefox. I use Gmail which is supported, and I never had to dig into it this deep.

Firefox would offer Outlook Express as the first "option", but since Win7 doesn't have Outlook Express as earlier versions of Windows did, that option shows up as Internet Shortcut Shell Extension DLL instead. (I get that too, with the "tiny" version of WinXP - sans OE - I currently use.) I have no idea how that Shell Extension DLL works.

The support page that I hyperlinked has this at the bottom:
Firefox 3.5 and Firefox 3.6 include only Gmail and Yahoo! Mail support by default. You may add other services when they add support for this Firefox feature.
I think Mozilla was counting on extension developers "picking up the slack" with an extension or extensions for each web mail service out there. But the way I see it, is that when Mozilla changed the way this works for Firefox 3.5 the few extensions that already did that were broken, and then there wasn't anything users had to use after the changes. IMHO, that was half-finished by Mozilla. They probably should have left that as it was in Firefox 3.0 or 2.0, instead of leaving the "completion" of this feature to 3rd party developers.

You need to an extension to be able to use MSN or Hotmail. Look for a suitable extension in this AMO search.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=mailto