Prior to the Google releasing this feature, users had to copy an e-mail address or URL, open Gmail manually, create a new message and paste it into the message.

Make Gmail open the next email automatically using the Auto-Advance feature in Gmail. Learn how to enable and use this feature.

Open Firefox Preferences, click the Applications tab, and type mail into the search filter. In the Action dropdown for the Content Type mailto, select Use Gmail.

Google's new app is like a personal assistant for your email, and now you can finally try it.

Although Google Chrome does not include a feature that opens email links in the Gmail website, Google has created an official extension that adds this function to the browser.