bittorrent - Chrome ignores magnet links
2014-07
mattheew
Chrome used to ask permission what to do when a magnet link is clicked. Two days ago it started ignoring it. I haven't installed or did anything unusual with the pc.
I tried reinstalling chrome and my bittorrent client but nothing changed.
I followed this guide and inserted this line into Local State folder
"magnet": false
This is a solution, but now chrome doesn't ask for permission, it directly opens the magnet link in the bittorrent client. When i remove the line, it ignores again.
I thought default behaviour was to ask for permission as it used to do two days ago.
I tried IE it successfully asks for permission, and works fine, even windows explorer opens up the bittorrent client.
How could this be fixed?
Questioner
When I download a torrent file there is an option for 'magnet link download'.
What is a 'Magnet Link'? Do they have any extra advantages?
It is basically a link to a files hash signature not the files location. You can read all about it on wikipedia.