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title: "Brave browser: make mailto: links open in your webmail"
url: https://perrotta.dev/2026/04/brave-browser-make-mailto-links-open-in-your-webmail/
last_updated: 2026-04-05
---


Stack Overflow: [How to make mailto: links to go to
Gmail?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71549037/how-to-make-mailto-links-to-go-to-gmail)

The described solution is platform agnostic — it should work for other email
providers than Gmail as well.

**TL;DR**: Visit `brave://settings/handlers`:

> Sites can handle special tasks when you click on certain types of links, like
> creating a new message in your email client or adding new events to your
> online calendar

...and then set your preferred webmail client as the **Default**.

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