Yahoo Mail Default Firefox 3 and Vista

Discussion in 'Windows Vista' started by susa320, Nov 9, 2008.

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    susa320 MDL Novice

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    susa320 MDL Novice

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    :confused: Me again...sorry if I'm being pesty...anyone know how I just delete "mailto" out of Firefox....can't find in C:/program....etc...or in about:config
     
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    :confused: I'm bumping this up....I still haven't gotten this fixed. Hasn't anyone else ran into this? I did try to uninstall and re-install Firefox and just updated to the newest version of 3 a few days ago. Been on firefox forums too. :confused:
     
  4. urie

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    Firefox has nothing to do with your mail, you need to install thunderbird or use outlook express and set one of those ase default mail client.
     
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    #5 susa320, Nov 22, 2008
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    :) Thanks for the input urie. But, I finally figured it out...I thought it was because I just got a Vista machine and added all my favorite programs, that's when the problem started...Yahoo mail worked just fine and dandy in Firefox 3 and my old XP...I wouldn't have any idea why Vista would require me to use a client based email such as Thunderbird or Outlook Express with Firefox versus a web based Yahoo......Well, the problem was with AT&T Yahoo. I did a un-install and re-install of that and Voila. I got my Yahoo back the way it's suppose to be. I did have it set as "Custom" in defaults, just a bad string. I was in the registry and noticed the garbeled up jargon int the mailto protocol under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail.....AT&T was the culprit. Maybe should of installed AT&T last....beats me. Glad I got it tho.

    Maybe this will help someone else in the future who has AT&T Yahoo but prefers to use Firefox for most part.

    Oh yeah and the new Firefox 3 actually is a more friendly format for use of Yahoo and G-mail...evidently just doesn't play well with AT&T,

    :cool: ~Susa