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A comment on Ask HN: Is there any point in using mailto: links any more?.

Re:Ask HN: Is there any point in using mailto: links any more? by tikhonj on Wednesday March 07, 2012 @03:25AM (#3674787)
It's funny you should ask this just now--Chrome has recently started to offer the option of opening mailto links in GMail. I think it presents this option as soon as you open GMail, so pretty much anybody using GMail on Chrome will be familiar with it. I suspect this means mailto links have suddenly become much more practical for a larger number of people.
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Re:Ask HN: Is there any point in using mailto: links any more? by fidrelity on Wednesday March 07, 2012 @03:53AM (#3674841)
i'm totally one of theses people. whenever i accidentally clicked on a mailto link some crappy tool popped up and wanted my attention.

now that it only opens a new gmail tab it's the first time that it's become useful to me!

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Re:Ask HN: Is there any point in using mailto: links any more? by Buzaga on Wednesday March 07, 2012 @03:49AM (#3674835)
This option appeared to me, but I didn't understood what they meant with it and opted no... I wonder if it confused other people too
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