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gentoosiast
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 Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 7:39 pm Post subject: [solved] Firefox integration with Vuze |
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Hello, dear all,
Is it possible to make Firefox automatically pass opened magnet torrent links to Vuze? Now when I click on magnet link I get following error message: "Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (magnet) isn't associated with any program." Tried messing with about:config and defining custom protocol handler but with no success. Any help will be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.
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Cyberwizzard
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Same for me, I'm running KDE4 here and the about:config settings did nothing for me as well as the gconftool-2 commands as described by http://kb.mozillazine.org/Register_protocol .
I tried every guide I could get my hands on but it seems Firefox 3.5.5 is handling the protocol settings different from before or it is ignoring my attempts to change it...
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Cyberwizzard
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| Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 5:14 pm Post subject: |
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Found it: FF 3.5 no longer uses the about:config settings, nor the conftool-2 directives.
Instead you need to mark the protocol to be not exposed:
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about:config -> RMB -> New -> Boolean Value -> network.protocol-handler.expose.magnet -> False
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No need to restart Firefox, just go to a site with a magnet link and click it. Firefox will pop up a dialog asking you how to deal with the magnet link. Point that to Azureus/Vuze and make sure to tick the "Remember this association" box.
Source: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.5/+bug/480502
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gentoosiast
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| Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Cyberwizzard wrote: | Found it: FF 3.5 no longer uses the about:config settings, nor the conftool-2 directives.
Instead you need to mark the protocol to be not exposed:
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about:config -> RMB -> New -> Boolean Value -> network.protocol-handler.expose.magnet -> False
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No need to restart Firefox, just go to a site with a magnet link and click it. Firefox will pop up a dialog asking you how to deal with the magnet link. Point that to Azureus/Vuze and make sure to tick the "Remember this association" box.
Source: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.5/+bug/480502 |
Thank you very much, your solution applies perfectly to my problem. |
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rtomek
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| Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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| just hopping in to say thanks! I was having troubles with this the other day |
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