I cannot open mailto links in external websites.

when I click on an email link in some websites, it says there is no application to open the mailto link. I went through the help menus, where I am asked to find the mailto feature and add an application. There is no mailto feature listed, so I can't link an application. It seems my firefox has no knowledge of mailto. I don't get a yahoo pop-up as others do. What do I do? I have Firefox 20.0.1and gmail and windows 7.

See:
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Changing+the+e-mail+program+used+by+Firefox
You can check the network.protocol-handler.external.mailto prefs on the about:config page.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/about:config
If network.protocol-handler.external.mailto prefs are user set (bold) then right-click and Reset them to the default value.
You can also try to change the network.protocol-handler.warn-external.mailto pref to true.

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