Protocol (magnet) isn't associated with any program

[rustydailey]

I keep getting an error when I click links. The error says: Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (magnet) isn't associated with any program. I have looked at the applications tab and the program is associated but I still get the error. Anyone have an idea?

Thanks
Rusty

[Guest]

The magnet protocol is used for bittorrent links. You need to have a torrent client such as uTorrent installed and configured to handle magnet links.

[WaltS48]

You have a magnet protocol associated with what program?

I had to register the magnet protocol first. This may help.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Register_protocol

[rustydailey]

You have a magnet protocol associated with what program?

I had to register the magnet protocol first. This may help.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Register_protocol

I do have a torrent program installed. I tried to follow the link but just got confused.

[jairusan]

I am using firefox 11.0 in Linux and after following the instructions in the mozillazine link, firefox still don't ask me what program to run I am sure there is something missing here since when I try to open the magnet torrent links with google chrome it ask what application to use.

Help please... I will continue researching and if find the solution will paste it here.

Thank you,

[WaltS48]

I just followed those instructions in Firefox Nighlty, and the magnet protocol is not showing up for me, under Content Type in Preferences -> Applications, so something must have changed.

It does appear in Firefox Beta, and I have it set to Always ask, but it doesn't work either.

Oh well, I just copy and paste them anyway.

EDIT:

Appears I had the value set wrong (didn't follow instructions).

I changed it to true for some reason, once changed back to false, it now works in Nightly.