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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.

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