mailto behaves abnormally in Safari browser

Question

I have Safari 5.1.7 installed on my system.I have installed and set default email client Mozilla Thunderbird.

I have an application which has link like

<a href="mailto:someone@example.com">email</a>

This works fine in Chrome,Opera,IE and Firefox.But does not work in Safari.

How to fix this.I searched on Google for this.There it is suggested that we should set an email client for Safari. But I am unable to set email client for safari. See the screenshot enter image description here

I am using windows 7 as Operating system Using Default Programs setting of windows I have set Thunderbird as default email client. Thanks

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 18 '13 at 08:47

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You need to install the mailto extension in order to achieve that.

See here: https://sites.google.com/site/mailtoextension/

answered Apr 18 '13 at 08:47

Mathew Thompson

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The link given on the url provided by you is not working – Apr 18 '13 at 09:10
@Muk Hmm really? It works for me. Try this one https://sites.google.com/site/mailtoextension/mailto.safariextz?attredirects=0 – Apr 18 '13 at 09:11
@mattyommo When i click on "Click here to download your attachment." this error comes "This webpage is not available". – Apr 18 '13 at 09:13
@Muk Weird, there are a few more download links on Google. Try this one http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/mailto-for-Safari-Download-205107.html – Apr 18 '13 at 09:15
Is there any other way apart from extension.I am running this safari on windows 7? – Apr 18 '13 at 09:17
@Muk There is on a Mac (as the other answer shows), but as you're on windows you'll need that extension. – Apr 18 '13 at 09:18
Please las help.How to install the extension you suggested on windows safari.I downloaded this. – Apr 18 '13 at 09:22
@Muk Check out this page for that: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/19337/how-to-use-and-manage-extensions-to-safari-5/ – Apr 18 '13 at 09:23

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 18 '13 at 08:48

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You set the default mail client in Mail I believe, or maybe in System Preferences. I don't have a Mac here, so cannot check. In Mail you set Thunderbird as default mail client.

answered Apr 18 '13 at 08:48

SPRBRN

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Neither does the OP. (If you look at the screenshot you'll see the browser is running on Windows.) – JJJ Apr 18 '13 at 08:49
Sorry, hadn't noticed that! – SPRBRN Apr 18 '13 at 08:50
Is there any other way apart from extension.I am running this safari on windows 7 – Apr 18 '13 at 09:10

mailto behaves abnormally in Safari browser

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