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.