Firefox and The Bat! (for mailto:)
Hello, I'm having a problem with mailto: links in Firefox. Windows XP, Firefox 3.5.3, The Bat! 4.0.38 I'm sure this used to work properly, but now when I click on a mailto: URL in Firefox, Windows starts installing MS Outlook instead of launching The Bat!. I went into Tools | Options and searched for mailto. The possible actions are: -- Use Microsoft Office Outlook (default) -- Use Yahoo! Mail -- Use Gmail -- Use other I suppose I could choose the last option and point to The Bat!, but before I do, I'm wondering why this is happening. On the Start menu, The Bat! is the email program (2nd item, left side). In IE7, The Bat! is the email program. I also don't get The Bat! as an option under Control Panel | Set my default email program (in that case, I get Outlook, Outlook Express, and Forte Agent). What's the best way to get this to work in Firefox? Thanks! -- Andrew mailto:aweb...@wwwebbers.com Current version is 4.2.10.0 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Firefox and The Bat! (for mailto:)
Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 2:12:20 PM, I wrote: Hello, I'm having a problem with mailto: links in Firefox. Windows XP, Firefox 3.5.3, The Bat! 4.0.38 I'm sure this used to work properly, but now when I click on a mailto: URL in Firefox, Windows starts installing MS Outlook instead of launching The Bat!. I went into Tools | Options and searched for mailto. The possible actions are: -- Use Microsoft Office Outlook (default) -- Use Yahoo! Mail -- Use Gmail -- Use other I suppose I could choose the last option and point to The Bat!, but before I do, I'm wondering why this is happening. On the Start menu, The Bat! is the email program (2nd item, left side). In IE7, The Bat! is the email program. I also don't get The Bat! as an option under Control Panel | Set my default email program (in that case, I get Outlook, Outlook Express, and Forte Agent). What's the best way to get this to work in Firefox? Sorry, one correction to what I wrote above. After I posted, I tried doing it in IE7, and though it says The Bat! is my email client, I still get Outlook 2007 Setup when I clicked on the mailto: link. -- Andrewmailto:aweb...@wwwebbers.com Current version is 4.2.10.0 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Firefox and The Bat! (for mailto:)
Hi On Wednesday 7 October 2009 at 7:12:20 PM, in mid:585565531.20091007141...@wwwebbers.com, Andrew Webber wrote: I also don't get The Bat! as an option under Control Panel | Set my default email program I don't have Set my default email program in my control panel. What's the best way to get this to work in Firefox? I don't know what is best but this works on my box. No guarantees it works anywhere else. (-; look at the file association for URL: MailTo protocol under folder options | file types. Mine says none. If I select that file type and click advanced and then select open and click edit I see the following:- Action: open Application used to perform action: P:\Program Files\The Bat!\thebat.exe /nologo /o:%1 Use DDE (ticked) DDE message: /nologo /o:%1 Application: thebat DDE Application Not Running: Topic: tbDDE The quotes shown around the path to my TB! executable and around %1 are as is. The path to your TB! executable may be different than mine. -- Best regards MFPA The second mouse gets the cheese Using The Bat! v4.0.38 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Current version is 4.2.10.0 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
