Set the Default Browser and Email Client in Ubuntu
Ubuntu has a simple way to configure the default browser and mail client. Of course, Firefox is the default application for web browsing, so you shouldn't ever need to use this screen, but if you insist, here's how to do it.
Navigate to System \ Preferences \ Preferred Applications.
Here you can specify which application you want to use for web or email links. For instance, if you are using Thunderbird for email instead of evolution, you can change that setting here.
You can also choose to automatically open all new Firefox windows in a new tab, although that's probably the default in Firefox 2.0.
You can also set Gmail as your default email client.
The Geek is the founder of How-To Geek and a geek enthusiast. When he's not coming up with great how-to articles, he's probably writing at his personal blog. This article was written on 11/8/06 and tagged with: Ubuntu, Ubuntu Tips & Tweaks
Hi,,,I have vista x64 ultimate installed and I can't get gmail notifier to access email links it keeps going to the windows default program and I can't change it since it doesn't offer any other program and I have gone through the options in gmail notifier to set it as the default client however it won't work. So is this a vista problem? Or microsoft monopolizing us again so that we can't change anything? Anyways any help would be greatly appreciated…txs