Associating your torrent client with Firefox in Ubuntu (Transmission)

So in switching to Ubuntu for my main OS, as I seem to run about 4 different OS's currently. It has been really straight forward. One thing that is hard is working out all the little things.

Now I use torrent for a lot of things, and no, torrents are not ALL pirate downloads. A great example is : http://vodo.net/pioneerone

So, I like to click the magnet links, they are just easy.

To set this up in FireFox, you need to adjust things a bit:

First lets find the value of the program we want to use. I am using Transmission but maybe you are using Azureus or something.

You can open up terminal and type:

which transmission

Replace "transmission" with the name of the program you want to use.

It will then return the location of the program that we will use as a value in FireFox:

/usr/bin/transmission

In the URL type:

about:config

Then right click | New | Boolean:

network.protocol-handler.external.magnet

Value set to:

true

Then right click | New | String:

network.protocol-handler.app.magnet

For the value we need to take what we found before with the command "which" in terminal.

/usr/bin/transmission

Then last lets check and make sure that:

network.protocol-handler.expose-all

Is set to "true".

From now on, you should be all good and have a window that pops up with the option to use transmission for magnet links.