How to create an email directly from the Google Chrome address line
Browsers Technologies / / December 19, 2019
The address bar of Google Chrome has many useful features, some of which we told you in those articles (1, 2). However, this list of hidden abilities omnibox ends. Today you will learn how to create a new email using the string type, Google Chrome.
1. Open in Google Chrome Gmail page and log in to your account.
2. In the address bar of your browser you will see an icon handler different protocols. Click on it and from the menu select the radio button to use the Gmail service by default, type mailto links handler.
3. Now go to your browser settings. Locate and open the section Manage Search Engines.
4. At the bottom of the list is a form to add new records containing three fields. Enter the name of the new record, what you like, for example, Write a letter. In field Keyword enter the abbreviation for her call, for example, email. And finally, in the last field, type the address mailto:? subject =% s.
5. Now open a new browser tab and enter the address you specified line cutting, and then press the spacebar. Omnibox switch to the letter creation mode.
6. Enter the name of the topic and press Enter. Letters create a window will appear in front of you, which you will only have to specify the recipient and type the desired text.
Use this method as the fastest and easiest way to send emails without opening the main interface with the mail service. This is useful especially if you decide to reduce the time hovering in the mail to a minimum, but to send the correspondence is still necessary.