sharing

[ftaylor92]

I want to share to GMail, not generic EMail in Chrome, without copying and pasting a shared link.

Can I change "Email" to "Gmail" in the Share popup on various Google sites?

You'll notice below that the first one, Google Maps, does allow sharing to GMail, but the rest, YouTube, Photos, Drive, Google Search, all have a generic "EMail" site to Share to, and it doesn't open GMail on Chrome in Windows.

Strangely, sharing to Twitter or Facebook are sometimes the only options.

 

[ajojose33333344 · Accepted solution]

@ftaylor92 First you go to windows and then make chrome the default application under mail/email

or it could also be like this:

then come to  chrome://settings/handlers  and enable the sites can ask to handle protocols and click on the 3 dots next gmail link listed below and make it default:

After this next time when you open share you will still see the option email itself but clicking on it will redirect you to the gmail 

[icrew]

See https://usdkb.sandiego.edu/s/article/How-to-Open-Mailto-Links-in-Gmail for how to make all email links in Chrome use Gmail.

Hope that helps,

Ian

[ajojose33333344 · Accepted solution]

@ftaylor92 First you go to windows and then make chrome the default application under mail/email

or it could also be like this:

then come to  chrome://settings/handlers  and enable the sites can ask to handle protocols and click on the 3 dots next gmail link listed below and make it default:

After this next time when you open share you will still see the option email itself but clicking on it will redirect you to the gmail 

[ftaylor92 · Accepted solution]

on Win11, I don't seem to have Email as "Default Apps" 

I guess "Double Diamond" doesn't exist on Chrome for Win11 64-Bit, so I had the put chrome://settings/handlers in Chrome address bar.

And then under chrome://settings/handlers, I had mail.google.com and Outlook web email blocked as sites not allowed.

So once I resolved some of these issues, everything worked for me.

[ajojose33333344]

@ftaylor92 Got it, Glad to hear that, and thanks for sharing the steps as it changes from os to os 👍