mailto behaves abnormally in Safari browser

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

Mukesh

Posted 2013-04-18T08:43:19.407

Reputation: 121

Answers

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

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

mattytommo

Posted 2013-04-18T08:43:19.407

Reputation: 101

The link given on the url provided by you is not working – None – 2013-04-18T09:10:07.623

@Muk Hmm really? It works for me. Try this one https://sites.google.com/site/mailtoextension/mailto.safariextz?attredirects=0

– None – 2013-04-18T09:11:15.940

@mattyommo When i click on "Click here to download your attachment." this error comes "This webpage is not available". – None – 2013-04-18T09:13:44.903

@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

– None – 2013-04-18T09:15:51.973

Is there any other way apart from extension.I am running this safari on windows 7? – None – 2013-04-18T09:17:44.340

@Muk There is on a Mac (as the other answer shows), but as you're on windows you'll need that extension. – None – 2013-04-18T09:18:28.623

Please las help.How to install the extension you suggested on windows safari.I downloaded this. – None – 2013-04-18T09:22:20.543

@Muk Check out this page for that: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/19337/how-to-use-and-manage-extensions-to-safari-5/

– None – 2013-04-18T09:23:32.077

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.

SPRBRN

Posted 2013-04-18T08:43:19.407

Reputation: 5 185

5Neither does the OP. (If you look at the screenshot you'll see the browser is running on Windows.) – JJJ – 2013-04-18T08:49:39.083

Sorry, hadn't noticed that! – SPRBRN – 2013-04-18T08:50:36.527

Is there any other way apart from extension.I am running this safari on windows 7 – None – 2013-04-18T09:10:44.033