Mailto links do not work in Chrome

Question

Links to Mailto do not work at all in Chrome (8.0.552.224).

These links work in IE 7 and 8, Safari and Firefox.

In Chrome, we click on mailto links (we tested this about 25 times) and everything just goes live.

In all other browsers, we click on mailto links, open email clients (gmail, outlook and others), and we can send an email.

But in Chrome we click on mailto links and nothing happens ...

Answer 1

mailto: links work on chrome, however it will not open a new window with all the information ready to enter email if the user does not have a plugin that allows this. If you want to check that the link works, go to your page and right-click, you should be able to copy the email address. Or you can install the Chromemailer plugin.

Update: I'm not sure when, but Google has implemented an update that now opens a window for gmail when you select the "mailto:" link. (presumably only if you are logged in to gmail)

Answer 2

It works for me too:

var url:String="mailto: [e-mail] ?subject=subject?body=message" navigateToURL(new URLRequest(url),"_blank");