title: “How To Make Yahoo Mail The Default Email In Firefox” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-20” author: “Mark Wenning”

Make Yahoo! Mail the Default Email Program in Mozilla Firefox

To set Yahoo! Mail as your default email program in Mozilla Firefox:

Open Yahoo! Mail in Mozilla Firefox. Select Options | Set Y! Mail as default webmail from the navigation bar. Now select Options | Preferences… or Firefox | Preferences… from the Mozilla Firefox menu. Go to the Applications tab. Make sure Use Yahoo! Mail is selected under Action for the mailto Content Type. Close the preferences window.

In earlier versions of Mozilla Firefox, in particular, you can also turn to the Mailto 2 Webmail script for Greasemonkey to have Yahoo! Mail handle email links.

Under Windows, you may also be able to make Yahoo! Mail your email program for other applications.