jonnief Posted December 5, 2006 Report Posted December 5, 2006 I receive an error message "torrent cold not be opened because associated helper application does not exist. Change association in your preferences".Of course after reading the FAQ, I tried everything recommended there, the "associate with .torrent files" is greyed out, and there is no torrent listed under the Firefox preferences in the "View & Edit Actions" area.ANY help would be greatly appreciated!![MERGE]I'm sorry,is this problem too easy for anyone to reply to? I still would certainly appreciate the assistance, but it seems like people are only answering the more diffiult questions...[MERGE]I have tried searching the posts and follwed all advice their + the FAQ and still no luck. I have never used bittorrents before this (no other programs on my computer)...
Ultima Posted December 6, 2006 Report Posted December 6, 2006 Realize that the support here is free, and that many of the people helping have other things to attend to. Bumping your posts is NOT going to get your questions answered any more quickly -- not to mention the fact that it's against the rules.What happened to the rest of the directions regarding Explorer and the Folder Options in this FAQ entry?
jonnief Posted December 6, 2006 Author Report Posted December 6, 2006 Oops, sorry I didn't mean to be rude...I did try everthing at that FAQ, but it didn't work . THere was nothing on the list within the Firefox preferences either...
Ultima Posted December 6, 2006 Report Posted December 6, 2006 So double-clicking on .torrent files opens with µTorrent by default? What version of Firefox are you using?
Postoasted Posted February 22, 2007 Report Posted February 22, 2007 I'm using FireFox 2.0.0.1 and have the same problem. The FAQ did not help. Does anyone have a solution?
Postoasted Posted February 22, 2007 Report Posted February 22, 2007 Never mind. Fixed it by going into FF "Tools/Options/Content/FileType" and deleted the erroneous association.
Ultima Posted February 23, 2007 Report Posted February 23, 2007 FWIW (and this was something I learned recently), people who don't see the dialog asking what to do with .torrent files and don't see TORRENT under the file types list in Firefox should go to about:config and check if you have a browser.download.hide_plugins_without_extensions option. If not, create it as a boolean. Either way, set the value to false. Afterwards, you should see the TORRENT file type listed in Firefox... From there, you can check the appropriate FAQ entry.
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