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I'm not sure if it makes sense to use an external P2P application for embedded media; there's no guarantee that the application is going to put the file where the browser can find and use it.
For link targets, however, magnet URIs seem to work already in Firefox (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.2); the first time one clicks on a magnet: link one gets a dialog asking for which external application to use. (Or maybe it just works right away if the OS has a registered protocol handler.)
However, it doesn't work with SeaMonkey (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120215 Firefox/10.0.2 SeaMonkey/2.7.2). Trying to open a magnet: link results in an Alert dialog which says "magnet is not a registered protocol". In order to get magnet links to work one must first register the protocol using the about:config editor.
I think that Firefox's solution should be adopted across the board; magnet links have been around for years now and are becoming increasingly common.