Gmail as a mailto Handler in Google Chrome

For the time being I have added a message CRUD to the blog platform. I thought it would be nice to add a reply button using a mailto anchor. With the idea that the button launches the user's mail client.

<a href="mailto:test@test.com">Reply</a>

I wanted to test this out with my own email client Gmail. Gmail is cloud based. As Gmail is cloud based, there is no mailto handler entry in the PC's regulatory.

In Chrome all cloud base mail clients have an icon in the address bar. You click on the icon to register Gmail (or any other cloud mail client) as the mailto handler.

I did not know that until now.