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Old 22nd November 2009
whetphish whetphish is offline
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Unhappy Firefox 3 - Adding magnet: protocol

Hi,

I am running Firefox 3 on Gnome 2 under FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE.

Basically I am trying to get Firefox to open Vuze when I click on a magnet: link, but at the moment I get the following message:

Code:
Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (magnet) isn't associated with any program.
I read a guide which suggested adding/setting the following in about:config

network.protocol-handler.app.magnet String -> /usr/local/bin/vuze
network.protocol-handler.handler.external.magnet Boolean -> true
network.protocol-handler.expose-all Boolean -> true

With these settings I get exactly the same error message clicking a link.

Another guide suggests adding the following in gconf-editor ...

/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/magnet /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/magnet/enabled Container
/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/magnet/command String -> /usr/local/bin/vuze %s
/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/magnet/enabled Boolean -> true
/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/magnet/needs_terminal Boolean -> false

This doesn't work either and has no effect on the error.

Note that I managed to create the string network.protocol-handler.app.irc in about:config in Firefox and set it to /usr/local/bin/xchat. This runs xchat fine when an irc: link is clicked.

As always any help would be greatly appreciated. I can't work out why this works for the irc: protocol and not for the magnet: one.

Thanks in advance,
whetphish.
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