Giving the developer and the user choice whether they want to use it or not because Linux is about having the freedom to choose. To me Flatpaks, Snaps and AppImages are just an extra way to be able to install and distribute software so that if a developer doesn't want to support every distribution that they don't have to create a package for several distributions. Then I tried transmission, tixati, fragments and a few other less famous torrent clients but that weird behavior kept happening, which is why I'm here now asking for ideas what might have gone wrong.Ĭlick to expand.I don't see every distribution replacing their entire user package collection with Flatpaks, Snaps or AppImages in the near future.
I tried downgrading deluge but that didn't help either. But qbittorrent has its own randomly happening issues which is why I'd prefer to stay with deluge, if that behavior can be fixed somehow. ONLY qbittorrent seems to be behaving normally and displaying that dialog window in question. At first I thought it was a bug in Deluge (Deluge displays that dialog window but it also shows an error message for duplicate torrents which is not true), so I tried all other torrent clients I could think of and that problem occurs with almost all of them. But in this case the torrent client doesn't show that dialog window. When you click on a torrent in a tracker, the torrent client runs and normally it should display a small dialog window where you confirm adding of the task and when you click OK, the download starts.
reg file or make the edits with regedit, then fire up Chrome again.In the last week or so something weird started happening with almost all bittorent clients and I'm pretty sure it's a package that's causing it, I just have no idea which package it might be, so I'm asking here for ideas. There is no need to reboot, just close all instances of Chrome, run the. This has been tested on Google Chrome 79 running on Windows 10 Version 1909. "ExternalProtocolDialogShowAlwaysOpenCheckbox"=dword:00000001 reg file, for example ShowExternalProtocolWarningBypassCheckbox.reg. You can do this by saving the code below as a. This was done for security reasons and it may return at some point in the future, once developers have found a way to make it more clear to users what the risks are of allowing certain links to parse whatever data the creator of the link wants to an app (that may be poorly coded) and also once there's some sort of user interface to manage these permissions (up till now you can only undo those permissions by going to "Clear Browsing Data > Cookies and other site data", which makes no sense).Īnyway long story short, you can re-enable the option to have whatever link always be handled by its corresponding app, which saves you a lot of clicking on that stupid confirmation box for every magnet or torrent link you want to download.ĭepending on the browser you use (Edge, Chrome or Chromium), add the proper line to your Windows registry. Some time ago Chrome removed the checkbox to "always open" a magnet or torrent link with an external app like qBittorrent.