Web Page E-mail Links That Don't Work: Bug or Feature?

There's an option under Firefox preferences for handling mailto links. I'm using Firefox 3 Beta, and it's under Tools>Options>Applications (search for mailto in the list and then pick the corresponding app). This may be different for Firefox 2.x

thanks, however on mac, that will not work....

Open up Mail's Preferences. Make sure the default mail application is "Mail." Try again, and let us know in the thread if it still is malfunctioning.

Yes, it is set as Mail...

thanks, however on mac, that will not work.... Erm, that is how it works in Firefox on a Mac, too—you can tell it to use the system default or select other in-browser options like Yahoo mail. Anyway. Have you moved Mail.app out of the Applications folder by any chance? Are you using any ad blocking programs, add-ons, extensions, InputManagers? Do mailto: links work when you use another account on your Mac (you can test it by making a new user and switching over to that user—this usually makes it immediately clear if you've borked something small scale or large scale).

thanks, however on mac, that will not work.... The menus are just in different places -- try going to Firefox>Preferences...>Applications.

theiconoclast31, for Mac options=preferences, and they are found on the Firefox menu. I logged out and into a different user, and in the e-mail links worked. Now what? I would prefer not losing/having to re-create all of my settings.

There is no Apple Mail item in the applications list of Firefox (under Firefox>Preferences>Applications)

Failing that, try http://www.rubicode.com/Software/RCDefaultApp/ - it should allow you to do essentially the same thing as setting the default handler in Mail.app, but you never know...