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Andrex on Feb 29, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Chrome Now Officially Lets You Open All Email Link...

Any protocol can request to be registered with the browser. Just a simple line of JavaScript[1]:

window.navigator.registerProtocolHandler(scheme, url, title);

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/timers.html#custom-handlers

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