I can't open mailto links in external Web sites.

When I click on an e-mail link in some sites, it is said there is no application to open the mailto link. I went in the help menus, where I am asked to find the mailto function and add an application. It has no mailto feature in the list, so I can't link an application. It seems that my firefox has no knowledge of mailto. I don't get one local yahoo like any other. What should I do? I have Firefox 20.0.1and gmail and windows 7.

Then in the dialog box Options, Applications Panel, mailto does not appear or is not any choice? This could indicate that the settings file that stores download actions is corrupt. Because its format is somewhat cryptic, the standard drug in this situation is to rename if Firefox cannot find and then a new one will be automatically generated.

Here's how:

Open the settings folder (AKA Firefox profile) current Firefox help

  • button "3-bar" menu > "?" button > troubleshooting information
  • Menu help > troubleshooting information

In the first table of the page, click on the view file"" button.

Leave this window open, switch back to Firefox and output, either:

  • "3-bar" menu button > button "power".
  • File menu > exit

Pause while Firefox finishing his cleaning, then rename the mimeTypes.rdf to something like mimeTypes.old

Launch Firefox back up again. Mailto appears in the Options?

The next time go you on Yahoo he expected to trigger Firefox to display an information bar between the lower part of the toolbar and the top of the page to add the latest version of its mailto handler.

A little luck?

Tags: Firefox

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