Opening email links

I can't click on the links in my email and get the link to open on Firefox. When I click, the Firefox start page opens, but the link is lost. Help and Thanks.

Something like this shouldn't require an addon. This should not have been removed from Firefox's feature list. Firefox is losing the war against Chrome, Safari, Opera, and even Internet Explorer.

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Hi,
I am running Firefox on Windows 7.
I want to open mailto: links from different applications in Firefox.
I have followed the instructions on the support page :
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/change-program-used-open-email-links
If I am on a web page, and I click on a mailto:xxxx link Gmail opens: great !
But if I am in another application (like an ERP application) and I click on a mailto:xxxx link then Outlook opens.
When I go to Default Programs => Associate a file type or a protocol to a program, for the MAILTO protocol there is only Outlook defined and I can not find a way to define another program for that protocol: any idea ?

Sorry, I don't need this addon: it doesn't solve my problem.
I can follow mailto links within Firefox, I want mailto links from an application to lauch Firefox.
At the moment, I have only Outlook as a possible choice in the window: Default Programs => Associate a file type or a protocol !
I have tried changing the registry settings with info gathered from several web page ... with no results.
Any ideas ?

Using firefox 8.0.1 -- cant open email links on web pages

using firefox 8.0.1 and cant open email links within web pages

Hi, Cor-el. The problem isn't setting my default email client --- the problem is that when I click on a "mailto:" link in a web page, any web page, while I'm using the firefox browser, "nothing happens" ....gmail is my default email client and when I click a mailto: link using explorer or any other browser, things work as they should and my gmail opens for me. This only became a problem with firefox when I downloaded version 7 (whatever) not too log ago. Downloading the latest version has not solved the problem.
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Fox will not open email links from thunderbird

just installed 4.0 beta 3 and it will not open email links . have ubuntu 10.04 installed with thunderbird 3.0.6

sudo mv /usr/bin/firefox /usr/bin/firefox_old; sudo ln -s /usr/bin/firefox-4.0 /usr/bin/firefox
installed this in terminal and it works now.

After installing the safari update for windows outlook is not opening email links. I have set safari as my default browser but hyperlinks won't open a browser window - I get an error message - "This operation has been canceled due to restrictions in effec

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Hi mcclausky, you may need to manually remove a policy setting from the registry. You also should scan for malware that might have created this problem.
This article lists scanning and cleaning tools other Firefox users have found helpful: [[Troubleshoot Firefox issues caused by malware]].
To check your Windows registry for policy settings that might affect Firefox or other programs, I suggest consulting a Windows forum or Microsoft's forums. For example:
* http://windowssecrets.com/forums/
* [http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-system/this-operation-has-been-cancelled-due-to/9677848e-072d-4206-87f4-9da9284d6151 This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator. - Microsoft Community]
* [http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_xp-security/restrictions-this-operation-has-been-cancelled-due/8af1d0cd-8fbd-4223-9396-86d7497bb275 Restrictions. This operation has been cancelled due to to restrictions in effect on this computer.Please contact your system administrator. - Microsoft Community]

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I fixed this myself. You have to ensure that Firefox is the default browser. In the Firefox menu (maybe under Edit if you are running Linux) go to Preferences. Click "Advanced" then in the "General" tab click the button toward the bottom that says "Check now" and Firefox will automatically check if it is the default browser and, if it is not, ask you if you want to make it default. Answer "yes" to this question.

Opening Email Links in New Tab

When I click on a link in email, Firefox opens the link in the current tab. My previous version of Firefox opened links in a new tab. Is there a setting to get the previous behaviour?

Something like this shouldn't require an addon. This should not have been removed from Firefox's feature list. Firefox is losing the war against Chrome, Safari, Opera, and even Internet Explorer.

Using Firefox and BigPond email, can't open email links when in a web page page.

In Australia - Victoria. Using Telstra Bigpond as email/internet provider. When browsing web pages with email links, cannot click on the link to open the email link. It says, no default email program exists. Email works fine outside of a web page. Can anyone help?

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[http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode] <br />
''Don't select anything right now, just use "Continue in SafeMode."''
If not, see this: <br />
[http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes]

Firefox wont open email links

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Whats the deal with version after version of new firefox and you guys have still not fixed the problem with clicking on email links and nothing happens.

Adware is not a virus. It's simply annoying and intrusive. Virus software is not going to help you stop this new plague on computer users.
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Firefox won't open email links after update to version 32

I just updated to Firefox 32. When I have FF open but hidden in my Dock on my Mac 10.6.8 it will not open links from my email in Outlook 2011 for Mac. All it will do is unhide Firefox from my dock. Once FF is visible and I click the same link in my email it will open a new tab to that web page. If FF is completely closed and I click a link in an email it will launch FF and open the web page. Only when FF is already open but "Hiding" in my Dock will it not open a new tab with the web page when I click a link from email. I didn't have this problem before the update.
FYI, Firefox is my default browser. I opened Safari and have FF listed as my default browser too. When I did the update I did a brand new download and install.

I use Outlook as my email client on my MAC and since the Firefox update, I cannot open hyperlinks in emails at all. The hyperlinks will open in Safari, but I prefer using Firefox and have it set as my default browzer.
Please fix this. It's truly annoying not to be able to open things!
Or tell me how to fix it. Thanks.

[SOLVED] ff4: Thunderbid doesn't open email links in ff anymore

Hi guys,
I used to have thunderbird open links with firefox but after the today update to firefox 4 the links on Thunderbird emails aren't opened anymore with Firefox.
Basically, when I click on a link of thunderbird nothing happens..
Any idea?
Thanks,
Fabio Varesano
Last edited by fax8 (2011-03-24 11:30:30)

My system is updated. Sorry can't remove my thunderbird config.. 10 email addresses configured there and thousands of mails stored..
I made the grep, but filtered out the Mail and ImapMail folders which would otherwise generate hundreds of matches (I'm a web and ff theme developer so the world "firefox" matches many emails).
[fabio@gamma ~]$ grep firefox ~/.thunderbird/*.default -R | grep -v /Mail/ | grep -v /ImapMail/
grep: /home/fabio/.thunderbird/js17qstd.default/lock: No such file or directory
Binary file /home/fabio/.thunderbird/js17qstd.default/global-messages-db.sqlite matches
/home/fabio/.thunderbird/js17qstd.default/prefs.js:user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp", "/usr/lib/firefox-4.0/firefox");
/home/fabio/.thunderbird/js17qstd.default/prefs.js:user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/lib/firefox-4.0/firefox");
/home/fabio/.thunderbird/js17qstd.default/prefs.js:user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "/usr/lib/firefox-4.0/firefox");
/home/fabio/.thunderbird/js17qstd.default/extensions.rdf: NS1:homepageURL="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3497">
/home/fabio/.thunderbird/js17qstd.default/blocklist.xml: <emItem id="[email protected]">
/home/fabio/.thunderbird/js17qstd.default/blocklist.xml: <emItem id="[email protected]"/>
/home/fabio/.thunderbird/js17qstd.default/extensions/[email protected]/install.rdf: <em:homepageURL>https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3497</em:homepageURL>
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Binary file /home/fabio/.thunderbird/js17qstd.default/training.dat matches

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The following message is displayed when I click on a link in an email in my inbox "Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (blockedhttp) isn't associated with any program."

Use the link without "blocked". Remove "blocked" from your e-mail's URL. Use only https:// or http://something.com/dfadfkk...

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I was having the same issue with my iPhone 5 iOS 7 and support resolved the issue for me. Here are the steps from support:
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Will not open email links, but will when closed?

Using MS Office 2011 for Mac: Outlook links will not open in Firefox even though Firefox is running in the background - clicking on the link brings Firefox to the forefront, but it doesn't actually do anything.
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Cheers,
Alan

sudo mv /usr/bin/firefox /usr/bin/firefox_old; sudo ln -s /usr/bin/firefox-4.0 /usr/bin/firefox
installed this in terminal and it works now.

Icannot open email links in firefox

I deal with a few shopping sites-when they email me I have to click
on a tab in their email-it then SHOULD open the shopping message in Firefox-instead I get a firefox popup saying cannot
connect--this has only occured since updating firefox
[ I get all other sites !] I have checked my firewall its not blocking.
my email provider is outlook express

I have almost gone nuts trying to solve this-BUT-I was looking at my firewall to make sure ff was excepted & it occurred to me to switch off the firewall & try
Lo & behold the problem was gone-so I turned firewall on-then lowered the level
of intensity and it SEEMS to be O.K [not happy to lower level though ]
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