Okay, now it is official that there are at least a good 8 Million Firefox 3 users (as of June 17) and counting. (The number is being quoted as per the Firefox Download day figures available here) So proud to see India in the 500K plus region. And nothing can be better when your favorite browser wants to get cozy with your favorite mail.

Have a look at this post in Lifehacker and this one here at GMail Blog.

This is a very handy tip when you want GMail to be setup as your default Mail Client. And what is that? Say for a page has a “mailto:”  link. Firefox RC1 had an inbuilt support for Yahoo. But if you wanted to go for GMail as your default mail client (which I surely do), you can check out the instructions available on both the blogs, but I shall give a quick roundup in simple plain language. Follow the steps given below.

• Login to your GMail account in Firefox
• Now, in the tab where GMail is open, type the following command in the address bar.
  

  javascript:window.navigator.registerProtocolHandler(”mailto”,”https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s”,”GMail”)

• For people using Google Apps, please ensure that you replace example.com with your domain name
  

  javascript:window.navigator.registerProtocolHandler(”mailto”,”https://mail.google.com/a/example.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s”,”GMail”)

• All done and set, Firefox will prompt you to Add Application.Click it. Done!

Now, you can click any mailto link. Try this ONE. Firefox will now prompt you to select from the available list of options. Select GMail and you are all set. You can send a hi if you want to.

Lifehacker has some more remedies if this trick doesn’t work for you. GMail blog has added how to change this setting if you wanted to change it at all. Happy GMailing!