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Using Firefox's mozex extension call an external mail program

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I recently moved from Mozilla to Firefox 1.0PR for Web browsing on my Fedora Core 1 Linux desktop system. On that platform, Firefox doesn't do anything with mailto: links by default; it just prints an error message if you click on one. However, a Firefox extension called mozex allows you to use any external mail program for mailto: links in Firefox.

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mojavelinux ·
If you look at my bug list, more than half of my votes are geared towards browser enhanced functionality of html controls. mozex fills deep void in the mozilla suite, or any browser suite for that matter. It almost makes editing webpages through a browser acceptable again. People went to great lengths to make plugins that embed RTF editors into a webpage, but the approach is all wrong. Just let the user choose his/her own $EDITOR and life is grand.

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