I noticed this issue occurring in the past few weeks, and never experienced it before. Basically, In Windows, if I set the default Email to Chrome, mailto links no longer work properly. The browser I am using to click on the link produces different results, but none of them work correctly.
Step-by-step, what I'm doing is:
- In Windows > Default apps > Email - set to Chrome
- In ANY browser, click a
mailtoURL- Chrome: Nothing happens
- Firefox: Opens new, empty Chrome window
If I set the Default Email to use Firefox, the mailto URLs work fine from all browsers.
Here is some HTML code I was able to reproduce the bug in:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<a href="mailto:anyemail@email.com">This is a test.</a>
</body>
</html>
I am inclined to believe this may be a bug between Windows and Chrome, because this only very recently started happening.
Some things I tried include:
- Changing Chrome Privacy settings
- Other threads suggested Handlers settings in Chrome, which did not solve this
- Verify the default program was set correctly (Default Programs > Associate a file type or protocol with a program)
- Use
window.openinstead ofhref(not that this would be a good solution, but it yielded similar results)