Bug 16154

Summary:	Depending on the installed packages, firefox fails to open magnet links
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Kristoffer Grundström <lovaren>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal	CC:	lovaren, olav
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	firefox	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Kristoffer Grundström 2015-06-20 20:57:40 CEST

Description of problem: This needs to be included as Firefox in other systems has this added as standard.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 31.7.0

How reproducible: All the time.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Open Firefox 31.7.0 and type about:config in the adressfield. Click to continue as it only gives you a warning that changes can make the browser stop working. This is NOT one of those cases as I've tested it myself.

2. Now click the search-field and type handler.expose

3. Rightclick in the empty space underneath and then choose New -> Boolean

4. Add the line network.protocol-handler.expose.magnet in the popup window and then click OK and choose to set the value to false. The Magnet link/s will now open a window for you to choose the proper torrent-client to download with.

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Kristoffer Grundström 2015-06-20 20:58:02 CEST

Hardware: i586 => All
Target Milestone: --- => Mageia 5
CC: (none) => kristoffer.grundstrom1983

Comment 1 Samuel Verschelde 2015-06-20 21:06:38 CEST

For future enhancement requests, please select the "enhancement" severity and do not add [WISH] to the title. Thanks!

Summary: [WISH] Add support for Magnet links in coming Firefox version => Activate support for Magnet links by default in our Firefox
Severity: minor => enhancement
Version: 5 => Cauldron
Assignee: bugsquad => thierry.vignaud
Target Milestone: Mageia 5 => ---

Comment 2 Manuel Hiebel 2015-06-20 21:08:47 CEST

if I go on http://terasaur.org/item/show/mageia-4-1/6712 magnet link are working fine... so don't see the request

Comment 3 Kristoffer Grundström 2015-06-20 22:59:27 CEST

I forgot to mention that I was in Cinnamon when experiencing this issue.

Comment 4 Olav Vitters 2015-06-25 13:27:07 CEST

This already works fine for me. I don't need a popup, I click a link and transmission starts downloading.

CC: (none) => olav

Comment 5 Kristoffer Grundström 2015-06-25 14:28:12 CEST

Yes, but if you choose to install KDE4 + Cinnamon it doesn't ask you which torrent client you want to use, instead it fails to open the link and gives me an error page telling me that Firefox doesn't understand hos to open magnet-links.

Samuel Verschelde 2015-07-02 21:44:21 CEST

Summary: Activate support for Magnet links by default in our Firefox => Depending on the installed packages, firefox fails to open magnet links

Comment 6 sturmvogel 2022-05-01 19:11:20 CEST

KDE4 -> Plasma5
Firefox 31.7.0 ->  firefox-91.8.0-1.1

Additionally this are user settings...

Closing OLD.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD