Send link button in Firefox

Problem

When you browse the Web, you encounter articles quite often that could be interesting for your friends too. How to send them these links in a fast and painless way?

Solution

Install the Send Link button add-on for Firefox. It’s a “trivial extension to add a toolbar button to trigger Firefox’s built-in Send Link… menu…”

Combine it with Gmail

If you have a Gmail account, you can set Gmail in Firefox as the default e-mail client. Then, when you click on a mailto: link, Gmail will open automatically.

Steps to follow: in Firefox, go to Preferences. Choose the Application tab and type in “mailto”. Under Action, choose Use Gmail. Done.