This is interesting in that Firefox immediately opens them with Transmission, and I've done 'Open URL' from Transmission with no issues using a pasted magnet link, but Chromium just isn't making the association, and doesn't give me any options anywhere (that I can find) to do so. So I went back in and again tried to open a magnet link, clicked on it, hit Launch Application (and this time wasn't dumb enough to put 'remember' and once again, it opened a Chromium blank window - just didn't make the association with Transmission at all. It worked insofar as it no longer automatically associates Chromium with the magnet links and killed the 'remember my choice' part of it. Thanks, it was already set to false, but just deleting the line half worked. Note: if it still doesn't work, open this file again and simply delete the entire line with "magnet" (and nothing else)this will reset it. save file in same format it's already in (should not have file extension on end of filename)(not Local State.txt or anything else).Relaunch browser. A magnet link therefor is theoretically all that is needed to download files from other peers in the Bittorrent network. It is a server-less way of retrieving the right information to start downloading the requested files. Type in enter handler.expose in the search box at the top of the list. For example the command: peerflix 'magnet link' -vlc would open a magnet link for streaming in VLC. If you find it make sure your browser is closed then open the file in a text editor and look for "protocols" and "magnet" and change "true" to "false" (this means ignore Magnet links = false)ĥ. A Bittorrent magnet link contains all the information needed to start downloading the files from peers directly. Open Firefox and type in about:config in the Address Bar and hit Enter. I have recently discovered a CLI-program called peerflix that allows the user to stream torrents. When it opens, run the command below will tell the default app for magnet links: xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/magnet. Magnet isnt shown under 'choose default apps by protocol', but if I run start 'Test' 'magnet://test' in a command prompt, Deluge opens as expected. Look in your home folder for a "hidden" file. Firstly, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open a terminal window. After installation, I see the torrent file type is available in Default Apps in Windows 10 (under 'choose default apps by file type').