Ubuntu – How to associate magnet links to qBittorrent

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I'm running Ubuntu 12.04.03 LTS and have installed qBittorrent v2.9.7 via the Ubuntu software center. But where can I find this program in the file system. I need that in order to define magnet in Firefox Edit/Preferences/Applications.

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To start qbittorrent, just search for it in Dash, or just type qbittorrent in terminal.

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To associate magnet links to qBittorrent in Firefox: Edit --> Preferences --> Applications tab Then type magnet in the search box. Select qbitorrent as your default application; other wise search for it.

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Ubuntu – How to assign magnet links to use qbittorrent

I had the same problem and managed to fix it by setting the defaults for both gvfs as well as xdg.

check defaults with:

xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/magnet
gvfs-mime --query x-scheme-handler/magnet

and set them with

xdg-mime default qbittorent.desktop x-scheme-handler/magnet
gvfs-mime --set x-scheme-handler/magnet qbittorrent.desktop

Assuming you have a qbittorrent.desktop file at /usr/share/applications/

Ubuntu – Magnet Links in firefox (Ubuntu 13.04)

If you already exhausted all solutions, you may want to take a look to your about:config page, in Firefox. It should have a boolean called network.protocol-handler.expose.magnet and it's value should be false.

If you don't have it:

Right click on an empty area of the about:config page
Select New > Boolean.
Name should be network.protocol-handler.expose.magnet and the value false.
Restart firefox and try again.

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