anyone having a problem opening torrent files in firefox?

won't associate in the applications under - tools/options/applications.

box in preferences in utorrent is greyed out.



no way to manually associate like past versions of firefox.

any suggestions?

works fine for vista & firefox and IE8 in w7.

2/9/2009 9:06:13 AM

my guess is that firefox is abiding by the System preferences in windows. Have you tried going to the "Default Programs" section of control panel, and setting it there?

2/9/2009 3:00:11 PM

http://www.wyzo.com/firetorrent/

2/9/2009 5:35:49 PM

Quote :

"Have you tried going to the "Default Programs" section of control panel, and setting it there?"

no but i will check back in.

2/10/2009 1:36:01 PM

it must be firefox. i'm running the 64 bit version of windows 7 and i've reinstalled it twice. everything works fine except for trying to download/open a torrent link.

dunno what's going on. i like firefox but this is strange. haven't read anything about this particular issue on the web.

Quote :

"Have you tried going to the "Default Programs" section of control panel, and setting it there?"

Doesn't show up there.

2/10/2009 9:21:08 PM

ok i was wrong, any link that leads to a download will not work.

wtf.

[Edited on February 10, 2009 at 9:55 PM. Reason : d]

2/10/2009 9:53:03 PM

what if you install a download manager plugin

2/10/2009 10:56:58 PM

no change. i even read up on mozilla knowledge base articles and their only suggestions are to rename the downloads folder, change the association in windows and delete a file out of the profile folder. did not help at all.

i wonder why it's so broken? everything else about the browser works fine.

i guess i'll have to keep using 64 bit IE for now or reinstall 64bit vista on this machine.

just as a test, i went to torrentreactor and clicked a random download link, it works no problem.

i went to mininova, it didn't work. clicked the magnet link beside a main link, it worked.

wtf. is it a coding issue?

[Edited on February 10, 2009 at 11:11 PM. Reason : d]

2/10/2009 11:02:19 PM

Quote :

" Doesn't show up there."

Cmon man, use a little bit of intuition. Clicking on the "associate a file type or protocol with a program" would be the bit I'm referring to. Check what the filetype is associated with, specifically for open actions.

2/11/2009 12:14:26 AM

^ did that man, created an association and IE works fine.

Firefox is the one having the issues and I can't figure out why.

I'll click on the link, for a second or two a thinking circle appears where the cursor was and then nothing.

no plugins or any other settings have been messed with.

i might just reformat and try again or go back to vista.

[Edited on February 11, 2009 at 11:06 AM. Reason : weird]

2/11/2009 10:52:02 AM

make sure Firefox isn't being blocked by DEP.

2/11/2009 3:46:12 PM

so it's ok for IE8 to run the code, but not firefox.

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm I'll have to take a look when I get home.

bcdedit.exe /set {current} nx AlwaysOff

[Edited on February 11, 2009 at 7:02 PM. Reason : i hope this works.]

2/11/2009 6:58:33 PM

^ummm, I would use the DEP exceptions dialog in control panel. Turning off DEP entirely is a REALLY bad idea.

2/11/2009 8:52:12 PM

DEP is only on for essential windows programs and services only.

i thought a DEP window would pop up if you did anything it didn't like.

in my case, when i click on a torrent link, the busy cursor spins for a sec and then nothing happens.

good stuff let me tell you.

works fine in IE. stupid firefox, utorrent and windows 7 interaction.

[Edited on February 11, 2009 at 11:39 PM. Reason : i'll never figure this out.]

2/11/2009 11:37:49 PM