Add Support To Your Firefox For Torrent Files Magnet Links

I found it tedious to add magnet links manually to my torrent client, Transmission. By manually, I mean I right click on the magnet link icon on the torrent web site and copy the link to memory. Then I open Transmission and type CNTRL+U, then ENTER,twice. When I click that magnet link I want firefox to be able to transfer control to another application which can handle the type of file I'm clicking.

I found a solution in the Mozilla forums, thanks.

Open a new tab in firefox. Then go to about:config. Be careful when you're editing your firefox config. In the search bar type handler.expose. Right click anywhere in the window and choose New-->>Boolean. In the new window popup, type Network.protocol-handler.expose.magnet. Then close the tab.

You should be able to click (normally) on the magnet link of that torrent web site and firefox will transfer control to your default torrent client. Otherwise a popup will prompt you to fill in your preferred torrent client.

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