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mailto: HTML command don't work with Firefox portable and windows

With firefox portable 36.0.1 (windows 7) this mailto: HTML command

<address>
Written by <a href="mailto:webmaster@example.com">Jon Doe</a>.<br>
Visit us at:<br>
Example.com<br>
Box 564, Disneyland<br>
USA
</address>

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_address.asp

don't work. If I click on the link Written by <a href="mailto:webmaster@example.com">Jon Doe</a>, my email client start up, but email field remains empty. I remember with older firefox portable and Windows XP this work well.

Any hint what to do?

EDIT

use this fiddle: fiddle my email programm start up, but to: field remains empty.

Solution

  • I tested this fiddle on 36.0.4 which I got from PortableApps. It works fine on my computer in FireFox portable and on my other browsers.

    It sounds like mailto: association is broken (or missing command line arguments) on your computer or mail program rather than on FireFox. A quick test is to see if this works the same with other browsers on your system.

    Try reconfiguring your mail program under the Default Programs control panel. Choose "Associate a file type or protocol with a specific program" and select the appropriate mail program. If you have more than one, try a different one to see if it works. There may be a way to do this from your mail client as well.

    You didn't say what your mail program is. I think I had a similar problem once with an old version of Windows Live Mail or GMail's shell integration.