Magnet links in Firefox [Solved]

[russell.eberhardt]

Hi,

Many bit torrent sites such as Pirate Bay now use Magnet links.  If I click on a Magnet link in Firefox I get, "Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (magnet) isn't associated with any program."

KTorrent understands Magnet so any ideas how to get Firefox to link to it?

TIA
Russell.

[Just17]

http://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/201203/page14.html

[nixer]

I had this same problem a couple of days ago.  This is what I did to solve it.  I am using transmission as my BT client but use Firefox as my browser.  These steps may help you.

In Firefox, under file > preferences, click on the applications tab.  Scroll down to "magnet" and select to "always ask".  Then click on the magnet file and it will ask you which program to use to open it.  In transmission, I had to manually "browse" to the program in /usr/bin and select it for it to work.  I guess this is because firefox recognized "transmission" but when I browsed to the actual file, the file name was transmission-gtk and not merely "transmission".  At any rate, after I did this, it worked fine.

Hope this helps.

[russell.eberhardt]

Thanks guys.

I installed transmission instead of KTorrent.  Copied and pasted the commands from the PClos Mag, followed nixer's instructions and all works fine.

Thanks again.

Russell.

[coffeetime]

Firefox

about:config


enter handler.expose



right click - New - Boolean



Enter the preference name network.protocol-handler.expose.magnet



Set its value to false



Click on the magnet link and you should see Firefox’s Launch Application Choose Dialog



Select your torrent client.

[russell.eberhardt]

Thanks Coffeetime, that's perfect.

Russell.

[shimonl]

Another thank you to Coffeetime! Worked perfectly!
Shimon

[cpufrier]

Thank you , thank you, thank you.

[Dreamofgilgamesh]

Hi, i just found this topic and i found it very helpful.  The only bit I'm stuck on is this,

"Select your torrent client."

Where in the Linux file system do i find Ktorrent please?

[russell.eberhardt]

Where in the Linux file system do i find Ktorrent please?

Here:
/usr/bin/ktorrent

Russell.

[Dreamofgilgamesh]

Thank you Russel, much appreciated.

[Jim Dandy]

Firefox

about:config


enter handler.expose



right click - New - Boolean



Enter the preference name network.protocol-handler.expose.magnet



Set its value to false



Click on the magnet link and you should see Firefox’s Launch Application Choose Dialog



Select your torrent client.

That didn't work for me. Even after I did the boolean thing and set it to false, I got the same message on/with Firefox.

[pb100]

Worked!  Thanks