Compose New Emails Quickly from Firefox

If you spend a lot of your day in Firefox, but switch over often to dash off a new email, creating a link between the two is easier than you might think, according to one Lifehacker reader.

Dick writes in to tell us that if you've got your email/mailto: handler set up in Firefox (or Chrome, Opera, or any other browser, really), dashing off a new email to an address you've just copied or have to write out from scratch can be sped along by heading to the address bar and typing out Want to speed that up even more? Create a keyword bookmark for the mailto: prefix, maybe something along the lines of em or just e. This won't save you much time if you've always got Outlook one click away, or only email your auto-completing contacts, but for occasional browser-to-email transitions, it's a good idea. Thanks for the tip, Dick!