magnet links don't work
Bug #1071033 reported by
Manuel López-Ibáñez
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Mozilla Firefox |
Won't Fix
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Wishlist
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ktorrent (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Simple. Magnet links don't work. This is a well-known problem. Fixes are available:
http://
Why not make it work out of the box?
Example:
magnet:
It works out of the box with Chromium.
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Changed in firefox: | |
importance: | Unknown → Wishlist |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in firefox: | |
status: | New → Won't Fix |
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.15) Gecko/2009102814 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.15
Build Identifier:
Make the magnet URI scheme work for browser content.
For example HTML5 <video src="magnet: ...etc. .."> or <a href="magnet: ...html" >
This could be done by firing off an external P2P application, or having one or more P2P protocols internally supported.
Reproducible: Always