It was working on Chrome. I installed Chrome Beta. On Chrome Beta, it keeps asking if Vuze (my BitTorrent client) should be used to open the magnet link despite clicking the checkbox. I uninstalled Chrome after.
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You want to look at the internal Chrome page for protocol/handlers
chrome://settings/handlers
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It only has 1 option there? ‘Allow sites to ask to become default handlers for protocols (recommended)’. – weeeeeee Dec 18 '17 at 00:48
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In which case, are you using Windows or Mac? It's using your defaults so you'll need to change it in your OS settings, Windows I believe is in Settings > Apps > Default Apps > Select defaults by app.macOS I can't remember but I'm sure you'll find it in the System Preferences panel – Jack Dec 18 '17 at 01:06
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Windows. Vuze was made the default but the problem persists. – weeeeeee Dec 18 '17 at 01:53
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I just encountered this issue and solved it by simply following these steps
Go to Chrome's user data directory. On Windows, that would be in the following path:
C:\Users\[YOUR USER NAME]\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\DefaultOpen the file Preferences with a text-editor, e.g. Notepad or Notepad++.
Search for the following line or chunk of text:
"protocol_handler":{"excluded_schemes":{}}Replace it with the following string:
"protocol_handler":{"excluded_schemes":{"magnet":false}}
Please note, if Chrome is running, some text-editor will prompt you to "reload the changed file". Don't do that, since it will reset the file to the version the browser knows it.
Instead, when done, it is a good idea to close your browser and then save the file.
