You will find that in the settings of Transmission. It can even remove the files after it added them. If the server is doing it wrongly, and you are not willing to take risks, you can simply have Transmission monitor your download folder and automatically add torrent files you place there. But every so often you are willing to take a risk, you can try, but keep in mind that this extension is considered buggy and may actually make the matters worse.
torrent as an octet-stream or some other weird mime, then Firefox will NOT do the stupid thing and open it by extension (like some broken browsers do), since that can lead to very bad results. In Ubuntu you can download a torrent file, then right click and select 'Properties', there you will find a way to select the default application. If it does, then Firefox will be able to open the file with the default application currently setup on your computer. (Start the addon just before you click on the download link for the torrent file, and watch the response header, it should contain: Content-Type: application/x-bittorrent.) You can check whether the server is sending the correct mime type by installing the Live HTTP Headers addon for Firefox. The answer depends on whether the server sends you the correct mime type (not just the file with the right extension). So that the container will look something like this: So that, now the container looks something like this: (Save a backup of this file.) Search for the container:
Open the mimeTypes.rdf file with text editor of your choice: gedit ~/.mozilla/firefox/fault/mimeTypes.rdf & Method (2): Editing the mimeTypes.rdf file: torrent files will be opened with transmission. In /usr/bin search for transmission-gtk and double click to open.ĭ. and click File System in the side bar, then browse to /usr/bin.Ĭ. Change the Always ask or Use gedit (default) to transmission-gtk by selecting Use other. Select the Applications menu and search for BitTorrent seed file or application/x-bittorrent or torrent. From Firefox's global menu, select Edit -> Prefere nces (or press Alt + E followed by N) to open Firefox Preferences.ī. But hey! that's just me.Method (I): Using Firefox's Preferences menu: (preferred)Ī. I'm very much a "visual" person I respond far better to plenty of visual 'stimuli' - like clear images/icons, good design, intuitive layout, etc - than I do to a wall of text. There's plenty of folks that swear by it, though.along with enough that swear AT it! Very tiny icons, in out-of-the-way locations.and nothing's really what I'd call intuitive. Transmission's one of the older breed of clients, as far as its GUI layout goes. I'm not a frequent user, but to me it's laid out very logically.even the (admittedly) comprehensive settings are quite easy to suss out. A lot of people have remarked, in recent years, how similar the two are in both operation AND appearance. You're not the first to make that observation. It reminds me of Utorrent that I used to use in :. Tixati seems to be exactly what I was looking for to be honest. I noticed there are a few other torrent clients in the S15Pup64 PPM but (unfortunately, as I've found with almost everything in there :/) none of them worked. But I've never been too bothered about hunting around for suitable alternative Linux apps, even if it means looking outside the repos.which veteran Linux users insist is about the worst thing you can do. Don't get me wrong I've nothing against Transmission at all.