If a user has a gmail account, Chromium (and maybe Google Chrome, too) can handle mailto: URLs perfectly by redirecting to gmail's "new message" screen. Unfortunately, in GNOME control center (and I guess XFCE and KDE may also be affected) there is no way to select Chromium as a preferred e-mail client. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Run this command in the terminal: yes --help Right-click on the bug-report e-mail address, select Send E-Mail. Actual Results: The "preferred" E-Mail client opens, but it is not Chromium. I can, in theory, set it in GNOME System Settings, but Chromium is not even a valid option there. Expected Results: I should be able to easily configure my system in such a way that Chromium opens and loads gmail. This can probably be fixed by adding x-scheme-handler/mailto to the MimeType line of the desktop file. While you are at this, please add x-scheme-handler/ftp, too. I fixed it locally by editing ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list manually in vim. Now it looks like this: [Default Applications] x-scheme-handler/http=chromium-browser-chromium.desktop x-scheme-handler/https=chromium-browser-chromium.desktop x-scheme-handler/ftp=chromium-browser-chromium.desktop x-scheme-handler/mailto=chromium-browser-chromium.desktop x-scheme-handler/webcal=chromium-browser-chromium.desktop [Added Associations] x-scheme-handler/http=chromium-browser-chromium.desktop; x-scheme-handler/https=chromium-browser-chromium.desktop; x-scheme-handler/ftp=chromium-browser-chromium.desktop; x-scheme-handler/mailto=chromium-browser-chromium.desktop; x-scheme-handler/webcal=chromium-browser-chromium.desktop;
Fixed in >=chromium-20.0.1132.11 . For Google Chrome please file a bug upstream.
