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You’ve heard it said that you must balance your home life and your work life to be successful.  But why do so many not get it right?  As far as juggling/balancing acts go, having only two things up in the air doesn’t seem all that tough.  So many struggle with it and get it wrong because the advice is wrong!  Or at the very least, incomplete and misleading.

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A couple of days ago I started using Google’s web browser, Chrome.  First of all, I must say that I am impressed, really really impressed with it.  However, mailto links didn’t seem to be working.  Naturally, I googled…

Just about every single result from my searching was about how to have Chrome use Gmail to open mailto links.  Pfft.  C’mon people, email is a text thing, not a web thing.  When will you learn?  I wanted a SXEmacs frame to pop up with a Gnus mail buffer loaded with the details from the mailto link.  I can do that with Firefox.  I can do that with just about any mozilla based browser.  So I should be able to do it in Chrome, right?

Yes of course I can.  Here’s how…

1. Get xdg-utils if you don’t already have it.
2. Get my mozmail.el which is in the XEmacs “net-utils” package.
3. Configure mozmail.el (there are instructions in the file itself and you can skip everything about making changes to your browser)
4. Start Chrome like this:  BROWSER=mozmail.sh google-chrome

And believe it or not, that’s it.