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Re:Mailgo, a new concept of mailto and tel links by kevsim on Thursday September 10, 2020 @06:49AM (#24430978)
> Yes you can configure your browsers to open mailto links with a webmail, but almost no one does that.

Numbers? I always clicked "yes" to that prompt when I was using GMail as my client. Maybe I'm weird?

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Re:Mailgo, a new concept of mailto and tel links by amadeuspagel on Thursday September 10, 2020 @07:14AM (#24431138)
I don't have any numbers, however there's a tool called hunter which finds relevant email addresses for websites, and it uses copy to clipboard rather then mailto. If even most people who know about and use such a tool don't have mailto configured, probably almost no one has.

I don't know what prompt your talking about. Maybe an uncommon browser feature?

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Re:Mailgo, a new concept of mailto and tel links by kevsim on Friday September 11, 2020 @02:36PM (#24445906)
It's not uncommon. A web app can call navigator.registerProtocolHandler (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/r...) to become the default mail handler. GMail does this.
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Re:Mailgo, a new concept of mailto and tel links by amadeuspagel on Saturday September 12, 2020 @05:18PM (#24455800)
Interesting. I use gmail, and I remember that mailto links bugged me forever, until I set it up manually.
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Re:Mailgo, a new concept of mailto and tel links by kgersen on Thursday September 10, 2020 @08:20AM (#24431572)
chrome://settings/handlers
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