Making Gmail the default mail client for Firefox used to be a fairly fiddly process, but now you can do it simply from within Firefox.
Google Operating System points out that you can now choose Gmail (labelled as “Googlemail” for some incomprehensible reason) as a mail client option within Firefox’s Applications menu, alongside Outlook and Yahoo!. Hit the post for step-by-step instructions.
Richard Mason
Friday, June 19, 2009 at 2:52 PMI would guess that it is labelled as “Googlemail” as this is what it is called in some European countries (in UK for instance, when users sign up for an account they can only get name@googlemail.com).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail#Domain_name
locus
Saturday, June 20, 2009 at 12:56 AMup untill the last year or so the setting for imap and pop were google mail, rather than gmail.
i would assume its a leftover from that…
kiiebego
Thursday, December 31, 2009 at 10:38 AMIf you want to set gmail (or Google mail) as your default webmail client you can use the free tool from http://www.zedlan.com called gmailbydefault.