There's nothing special about Gmail here. If you have a half-decent mail client, just create a bookmark/shortcut to "mailto:" and your OS/browser will open a ne

There's nothing special about Gmail here. If you have a half-decent mail client, just create a bookmark/shortcut to "mailto:" and your OS/browser will open a new compose window in your email client of choice. This even works for me when typing it into Safari's address bar.