Solved Chrome and mailto link problem

[thelastvoice]

Has anyone else been having this problem? I'm using Chrome stable version. For the last month or so, I've been getting this popup almost every time I load Gmail. It happens multiple times per session. It happens if I navigate to Gmail from another page or from a fresh start of the browser. I've tried clearing the cache and disabling all extensions and running Chrome as administrator. It happens in both desktop and Windows 8 mode. It's getting to be really annoying.

 

[Brink]

Hello Rob,

You should be able to go into Default Programs and set "Google Chrome" to be the default program with all of it's associations to also make the MAILTO protocol it's default as well.

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorial...ms-set-your-default-programs-windows-8-a.html


The only issue is, that with Google Chrome set as the default web browser instead of Internet Explorer, you will no longer have the IE10 Metro tile on the Start screen.

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/15045-internet-explorer-10-metro-restore-windows-8-a.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[thelastvoice]

Thanks. Actually it looks like Chrome was already set as default for all of it's available associations, including mailto, but the message still pops up. I also have Gmail chosen as the default handler for mailto in the Chrome settings (Settings/Show advanced settings/Privacy/Content settings/Handlers). However, disabling handlers completely in the Chrome settings seems to have stopped the pop up from appearing.

 

[Brink]

That's great news.

I suppose it's due to that the MAILTO protocol is usually associated to an email client program instead.

 

[thelastvoice]

There must have been something that changed in either a recent Chrome update or Win8 update. I've had that mailto handler setting enabled ever since it was added to Chrome. It was never caused a problem in Win 7, or in Win8 either, up until recently.

 

[Brink]

That very well could be as well, but glad you got it sorted for now.