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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".

Braiam
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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.
Braiam
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I solved this problem following the comment of @GyörgyAndrasek:

"For those of you still struggling, you may also need to temporarily change network.protocol-handler.expose-all to false"

The keyword here (not said before) is "temporarily"

Once you are at one click of the magnet link you want to associate with your bit-torrent program, then you change the network.protocol-handler.expose-all to false. Then click the magnet link. You get a window like this (sorry, this is in spanish):

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There you can choose the program to open this link and you can make it permanent by ticking the lower check-box.

Then you must change the network.protocol-handler.expose-all back to true.

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My ubuntu: 16.04 LTS

My Firefox: 56.0 (64-bit)

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