Handling / Open Magnet Link

[jasonyang-ee]

Captchas

• I have read the instructions.
• I have searched existing issues and avoided creating duplicates.
• I am not filing an enhancement request.

What happened?

Issue

The default behavior of clicking torrent magnet link will not prompt for action. (Obviously, I am using this for getting all the Linux distro iso file.)

Expected Behavior

On default, Firefox will ask user to allow opening of magnet link on current domain. Then, it will ask for application to open the magnet link.

Current Work Around

1. In about:config add network.protocol-handler.expose.magnet entry with false boolean value
2. Restart Zen
3. Open magnet link and have it register a new application content type in setting page by selecting some torrent handling program.
4. [Optionally] Some people will have self hosted webui solution for handling magnet link. You will have to edit the profile folder/handler.json file and replace the "magnet":{"action":2,"handlers":[{"name":"torrent","path":"C:\\Program Files\\qBittorrent\\qbittorrent.exe"}]} with "magnet":{"action":2,"handlers":[{"name":"torrent","uriTemplate":"https://mydomain.com/#/magnet/%s"}]}

Request

• Default Zen should include network.protocol-handler.expose.magnet config property to false at minimum.
• Additionally, allow selecting of content type action to be an URI / API instead of forcing user to choose a installed program.

Reproducible?

• I have checked that this issue cannot be reproduced on Mozilla Firefox.

Version

1.0.0-a.34 (64-bit)

What platform are you seeing the problem on?

Windows

Relevant log output

No response