On Sun, 16 May 2010 11:14:29 -0700 Michael Moore <moore.michae...@gmail.com> dijo:
>On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 7:36 PM, John Jason Jordan ><joh...@comcast.net> wrote: > >> >> Does anyone have a bittorrent client and browser that are working >> with magnet links? If so, how did you do it? > >Yes (Chrome + uTorrent), but under Windows 7, which isn't a very >helpful answer. Transmission (Linux / OS X) supports magnet links as >of v1.8. If Firefox doesn't know how to handle magnet links, you >probably have to edit about:config to add that capability. I'm sure >you can find instructions lots of places. Not sure if would work >out-of-the-box with Chromium; with Chrome on Windows, it worked >without any fiddling. > >(I haven't had time to try installing Linux on my laptop yet, so for >the moment I'm in Windows land.) I have since discovered that there are three bittorrent clients for Linux that can do magnet links: Vuze (need 4.3+ for 64-bit links), Transmission and Deluge. I have them all installed, and I have managed to add a plugin to Firefox so it will download a link, but so far none of the three bittorrent clients can see the link. I also found instructions for manually editing about:config in Firefox to enable it to send the link directly to the bittorrent client, but the instructions didn't work. Just about every place I read about magnet links on Linux indicates that it's easy to get working and everyone posting reports success. I guess I can't do the easy things. Wait ... I can't do hard things either. Bah. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
