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Coeluh:
If you are using Firefox, you must still set gmail as the default handler in Applications tab of the options page.
-edbro (April 17, 2009, 01:33 PM)
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Yeah but this was about pressing the email button key on my keyboard, because only linking it to gmail.com was not enough because the default mail program still will be trigered.

cmpm:
I couldn't get the darn ahk thing to work.
Although the .exe loads Gmail, I lost it in the registry.
It looked like what you had there Coeluh.

And thanks for that ahk exe.
It can be pinned to the start menu.

I looked for a good while before for an answer for this.
Looked again for a while today.
Found this, which is in beta, but shows some promise.
I could put Google Mail as the email program in control panel/internet options.

http://www.williamrandol.com/GmailIconNotifier.htm

It does have it's quirks.
And I had to pin a gmail icon to the start menu.
But if this fella keeps working on it.
I think it would be great.

Found other solutions that required like 4 add ons.

http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/09/replace-outlook-with-gmail-as-your.htm

Another is affixa-which used to be gAttach which worked good, but this is very different and replace gAttach forever I guess.

http://seriouslytrivial.com/2009/02/03/make-gmail-your-default-windows-email-client/

Coeluh:
I couldn't get the darn ahk thing to work.
Although the .exe loads Gmail, I lost it in the registry.
It looked like what you had there Coeluh.

And thanks for that ahk exe.
It can be pinned to the start menu.

I looked for a good while before for an answer for this.
Looked again for a while today.
Found this, which is in beta, but shows some promise.
I could put Google Mail as the email program in control panel/internet options.

http://www.williamrandol.com/GmailIconNotifier.htm

It does have it's quirks.
And I had to pin a gmail icon to the start menu.
But if this fella keeps working on it.
I think it would be great.

Found other solutions that required like 4 add ons.

http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/09/replace-outlook-with-gmail-as-your.htm

Another is affixa-which used to be gAttach which worked good, but this is very different and replace gAttach forever I guess.

http://seriouslytrivial.com/2009/02/03/make-gmail-your-default-windows-email-client/

-cmpm (April 17, 2009, 07:29 PM)
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Did you managed to pull it off now?

cmpm:
I gave up on it. But still have Gmail in my start menu, that opens the inbox. I suppose I could make a compose icon and put it there.

I use Poppeeper for gmail and yahoo anyway.
Although it doesn't do anything for system default settings.

http://www.poppeeper.com/

Coeluh:
I gave up on it. But still have Gmail in my start menu, that opens the inbox. I suppose I could make a compose icon and put it there.

I use Poppeeper for gmail and yahoo anyway.
Although it doesn't do anything for system default settings.

http://www.poppeeper.com/
-cmpm (April 18, 2009, 09:50 AM)
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Well Maybe someone can develop a batch that does this registry edits? Where are you stuck in the registry editing? Maybe I can help you.

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