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Magnet Links in firefox (Ubuntu 13.04)

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I know this has been asked quite a few times already, however, I still don't have it working.

I'm using Qbittorrent as my torrent program, and I want to be able to open magnet links in Firefox.

I already chose qbittorrent as my magnet application handler (in firefox preferences - applications. I chose qbittorrent, located in /usr/bin/).

It's not working. Whenever I click on "download torrent", nothing happens.

Any ideas?

Now that I took another look on my firefox preferences, I see that "magnet" has still "always ask" as its value. I tried to change it, but I can't. It always goes back to "Always ask".

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answered 1 Year ago tubequ · Accepted Answer

If you already exhausted all solutions, you may want to take a look to your about:config page, in Firefox. It should have a boolean called network.protocol-handler.expose.magnet and it's value should be false.

If you don't have it:

Right click on an empty area of the about:config page

Select New > Boolean.

Name should be network.protocol-handler.expose.magnet and the value false.

Restart firefox and try again.