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Firefox how to set up azureus to handle magnet protocol

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I wan to open torrents directly with azureus, how do I set up azureus to handle magnet protocol from Firefox?

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maruscia (maruscia) said : 		#1

Hi, you need to set up firefox to handle magnet protocol and configure it in order to invoke Azureus when needed.

This should do the job (according to MozillaZine Knowledge Base):

* Type about:config into the address bar and press Enter.

* Right-click -> New -> Boolean -> Name: network.protocol-handler.external.magnet -> Set the Value to 'true'

* Right-click -> New -> String -> Name: network.protocol-handler.app.magnet ->set the Value to "/usr/bin/azureus"

Make sure that /usr/sbin/azureus is the right path for your installation, it should be if you installed
the packages from the official repositories. You can check it by typing 'which azureus' in a terminal shell.

* Ensure network.protocol-handler.expose-all is set to true. (mine was already, it should be the default setting)

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