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How to have Gmail as the default email in Opera

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Tutorials

Tuesday May 11, 2010

Opera is a wonderful

web browser

. It's fast, it's lean and it has a world of cool features. Plus, it keeps getting better and better. If you use Gmail for your email needs, however, you may wonder if there's a way to use

Gmail as Opera's default email

. There sure is and we'll show you how right here.

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- Click Start, Programs, then Accessories, then click on Windows Explorer.

- In Windows Explorer, click on Drive C, then click on Program Files.

- Now find the Opera folder and click on it, then find the defaults folder and click on that.

- Look for the file, webmailproviders.ini which, despite the file extension, is a basic text file.

- If you double-click on it, the file will open in your default text editor.

- With the file open, copy the four (4) lines below that are between two lines and paste them at the bottom of the file:

------------------------------
[Gmail]
ID=8
URL=https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s
ICON=http://mail.google.com/mail/images/favicon.ico
------------------------------

- Save the file and close it.

- If Opera is still open then close it and re-open it.

- Click on the menu button, select

Settings and then Preferences

. Click on the Advanced tab.

- Now click on the Programs section and highlight mailto in the protocol listing.

- Click Edit and select the Use a Web Mail Service button.

- Now click on the drop-down list and pick Gmail.

- Click OK twice and restart Opera once more.

- Gmail is now your default email in Opera.

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