Hi, could you please expand on where the mailto : is, as a little confused on the compose which is on gmail site but no idea where you are getting the mailto: from and how it gets to your draft folder.

As mailto: links are on websites and not with in gmail itself.

If this is on a web site please supply the url as it maybe malformed code. Thanks.

The latest example came from craigslist ... one of the reply links they use for anonymous contacts. Have had it other places too, but can't remember them. Nothing wrong with the email address ... worked fine, as I said, when I ported everything over to a Compose screen off the regular gmail tab. The only problem was with the second gmail screen that the mailto: triggered. Everything worked fine with Chrome too, btw.

No mystery on the draft folder. When I bailed out of the second screen, it became an unsent message, and the draft folder is where unsent messages live.

Does it work if there aren't any other tabs open with Gmail in that makes a difference?

Does Firefox populate the inputs fields correctly when you click the mailto: link?

If I had to close all open tabs before I clicked a mailto: link, I think I would consider the cure worse that the disease and just keep doing what I'm doing. Fields all populated properly. I literally copied and pasted everything: the to address, subject line, text, over to the main tab, and from there it worked.

I'm not talking about all open tabs, but tabs that have a Gmail composer window open. Sometimes windows/tabs have a window name and Gmail might get confused if there are two windows open that have the same name.

Gmail doesn't get confused with Chrome. Just with Firefox.