Windows 10 captures FF send mail option
- ineuw
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Windows 10 captures FF send mail option
This seems to me a recent update to Windows 10 related to emailing a weblink from the browser. It demands my Google account and I don't want to sign in to Microsoft to get to gMail. How can I disable this in Windows?
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- DanRaisch
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Re: Windows 10 captures FF send mail option
Sorry, how would Microsoft have to do with signing into your Gmail account? What is the text of the displayed message?
- ineuw
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Re: Windows 10 captures FF send mail option
I took a screenshot. How can I upload it? The "Email a link to this page" icon on my address bar or the File \"Email link," activates a message in the center of an opaque background demanding that I must provide MS my Google login credentials get to my gmail account, which I refuse to do. There are choices for other online accounts like Live Mail, Yahoo, etc. I can access gmail directly from a bookmark and can copy and paste the link. But scanning the software for viruses is the prudent first step to take.DanRaisch wrote:Sorry, how would Microsoft have to do with signing into your Gmail account? What is the text of the displayed message?
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- DanRaisch
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Re: Windows 10 captures FF send mail option
See this link for posting a screen shot -- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Posting_a_scr ... _the_forum
Moving to MozillaZine Tech as this is not a Firefox Support issue.
Moving to MozillaZine Tech as this is not a Firefox Support issue.
- ineuw
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Re: Windows 10 captures FF send mail option
Please note that the background is not from my desktop, it was part of the message http://www.picfront.org/d/9Qw5
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- ineuw
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Re: Windows 10 captures FF send mail option
I tracked down the source. It comes from the user email settings. But how does that capture my emailing a link from Firefox?
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- DanRaisch
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Re: Windows 10 captures FF send mail option
That's because you are using web mail. The default app setting would normally point to an email client like Thunderbird. Instead you are asking Windows to launch a web mail site.
- ineuw
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Re: Windows 10 captures FF send mail option
Thanks. It's interesting that they are just clamping down. Before last week signing in was not required.
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