I noticed that Google Chrome has a feature which let's Gmail handle mailto: links. I'm wondering whether or not Chrome has to be running on the computer in order for this to work or not.
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Google does not have this feature currently. Gmail does log successful access to your account though, so you would see if anybody managed to actually break in. At the bottom of your gmail page it says "Last account activity: [x] minutes ago from [ip]". If you click the details link, it will show you a list of the most recent access, the location, and the IP address.
Make sure you have the Alert preference set to "Show an alert for unusual activity" so that it will alert you to suspicious activity, such as logins from different geographical regions and similar suspicious behavior.
If GTalk works the same as Live Messenger, when you close a conversation in one place, it closes it everywhere. Do you observe the same behavior if you try it the other way, and close the conversation from chrome while Firefox also has the conversation open?
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After doing some testing, it seems that Chrome does not need to be running in order for it to handle
mailto:links. It will launch Chrome and open up a new tab to themailto:address, which then gets redirected to Gmail.On Mac OS X, this works because Chrome changes itself to be the default mail client.