#Mac torrent not working utorrent#
Here is an flow to explain to the nit-pickers out there, and those who are not Firefox, bittorent or utorrent users:ġ) User browsers a torrent site with Firefox.Ģ) User clicks on a torrent file to download it.ģ) User would like to see the torrent file auto-opening in utorrent after downloading. This is a genuine problem and not an obvious user error.
I found the thread after googling the problem. Also, your posts are more concerned with proving that your original comment was correct, than with actually helping with resolving the problem. Try shaping your responses to be a little more constructive, rather than destructive, as this helps no I would respectfully suggest that you stop participating in this thread, as it is clear that you are not familiar with the problem that several people here are raising. I felt that the author of the thread was looking for a solution to his problem, not a lesson in semantics. When I stumbled upon this thread on saw that a such a simple question was answered with such arrogance and ignorance, I was motivated to reply. For whatever reason, Firefox seems to ignore that this option is enabled when handling torrent files.Īlso I wanted to state that I am not a regular user on this forum, and that I registered just to reply to this thread.
Is it possible to configure firefox not to display the firefox open file dialog, when a file is launched from the firefox download manager, an application is selected to "open with", and the "Do this automatically for files like this from now on" option is checked. What the Gentlemen who started this thread was trying to ask was: And an end user would say that they "opened" the file in Firefox.)Īlso nobody on this thread asked about automatically opening files after they have been downloaded. (I know ultimately this a small program running inside of firefox that handles the downloading of the torrent. With the correct torrent addon, this is entirely possible. But you are incorrect that these files cannot be opened with firefox. GGJ - You are correct that torrent files are usually opened with standard torrent applications. Most users will only have one torrent application, and most other applications on the system will be configured to use this sole torrent application to open torrent files. Web Browsers - Firefox, Chrome, Opera, IE, etc.Įach of these applications can be independently configured to open torrent files with any application. (You need to remember that although these applications are commonly bundeled with their respective Operating Systems they are indeed applications.) torrent file usually determines what application it is opened with.Ĭommonly used applications to launch torrent files are:įile Browsers - Explorer (Windows), Finder (OSX), Nautilus (Gnome), Konqueror (KDE), etc. torrent file, the application that is used to lanuch the.
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