anyone clever on here

laura1964

after years with incredimail and firefox i got fed up of probs and have switched to google chrome and gmail quite happy but i cant get gmail to be default ive done what it said in googlechrome and done the adding bit thats all fine but its not default. in the default progs it still says windows mail and wont let me untick it or add gmail its driving me nuts not being able to click on links for mail when comping so can anyone tell me what to do thanks;)

pompeypaul25

Hi Have you tried this? I just did and it works. Do the first steps in the linky first.

http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1382847

Then check this is ok?

1. Click the Chrome menu on the browser toolbar.
2. Select Settings > Show advanced settings.
3. In the "Privacy" section, click Content settings.
4. In the dialog that appears, find the “Handlers” section.
5. Click Manage handlers.
6. Use the drop-down menu next to a listed protocol to select the web service that should be used by default.

The Manage handlers should show 'mailto' - make sure gmail is selected.

hth

I personally use Mozzila Thunderbird as an email client as it's a lot less 'clunky' than gmail (can be set up to work with your gmail account)

Good Luck

https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/thunderbird/

laura1964

Done that but in the manage handlers there is nothing in there so still not working

mjm3346

Might be worth a post on the Techie Section

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=29

pompeypaul25

laura1964 wrote: »

Done that but in the manage handlers there is nothing in there so still not working

Hi Laura looks like you don't have the handler installed then?
Did you do this bit below and click on the icon?
(I am assuming that you are trying to do this on a windows PC and not a Mac or other device?)


For example, when you open Gmail in Chrome, a protocol handler icon may appear in the omnibox next to the star bookmarks icon. Click it to show the following options:

• If you'd like to allow Gmail to open all email links, select the Use Gmail radio button. When you click a hyperlinked email address on a page, Gmail's compose window will open.

laura1964

thank you i dont quite see where those icons are i have had a look but cant find them please could you tell me where thank you

pompeypaul25

Hi,

If you open up one of your emails, you should see the little grey diamonds top right. Click on that and select 'Use Gmail' option.

laura1964

no diamonds im afraid