When opening a magnet link in Chrome, I get the following error:
"Failed to open URI "magnet:?xt=urn:btih:98b91cec54ec82ae7cde4ef129f7fec3df6b2c8b&dn=+3+x86_64+DVD&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.istole.it%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.ccc.de%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337".
The specified location is not supported."
This just recently started happening in Chrome; magnet links work fine in Firefox. I'm using Linux Mint 19.1.
Any ideas on how to fix?
[SOLVED] Getting "Failed to open URI Magnet" Errors in Chrome
[SOLVED] Getting "Failed to open URI Magnet" Errors in Chrome
Last edited by Melvis on Fri May 10, 2019 3:47 am, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Getting "Failed to open URI Magnet" Errors in Chrome
I found the solution . My system did not have the default torrent program set.
I checked my default magnet handler by running this command line:
The above command showed that no default was set. To set it, I ran:
Now Chrome recognizes magnet links and opens qBittorrent as expected.
I checked my default magnet handler by running this command line:
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gio mime x-scheme-handler/magnet
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mime x-scheme-handler/magnet qbittorrent.desktop
Last edited by Melvis on Thu May 09, 2019 11:24 pm, edited 1 time in total.