Today Torrent is the most popular way of downloading large files, including movies, games and other files. But, To download torrent files you need the torrent client application such as UTorrent or Bit Torrent. To Download any torrent you always use torrent client application to download the files, But now you can also download torrent files directly from Firefox. You need to install Firefox Add-On FireTorrent to Firefox. But, first Let me clear some basic doubt for newbies.
How to download torrent in Firefox
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Torrent is a small file (around few kilobytes) with the suffix .torrent, which contains all the information needed to download a file the torrent was made for. That means it contains file names, their sizes, where to download from and so on. You can get torrents for almost anything on lots of web sites and torrent search engines.
Downloading with the torrent is useful when downloading huge files additionally it supports resume capability. Downloading with a torrent is advantageous, especially when downloading files, which are momentarily very popular and which lots of people are downloading. Because, the more people download the file, the higher speed for everyone.
Normally, We first download torrent file with the suffix .torrent (size will be around some Kilo bytes), and then we open that torrent file using torrent client application to download.After adding Firefox Add-on, which will enable Firefox to be as your bit torrent client. This will make Firefox directly download torrent files content on your PC.
FireTorrent is a Firefox Add-On made to integrate torrent downloading right into Firefox without any Bit Torrent client. Fire Torrent integrates seamlessly into your downloads window, making downloading torrents with Bit Torrent really easy. The Download Speed is good using fire torrent and also Support Resume Capability.
Browsers can only download the .torrent file. You would need a torrent client for your device to join a torrent network and download the file that the .torrent file references. I have never researched if there are torrent clients for mobile phones.
I am sorry that you weren't able to find apt help. Now lets try to help you. So you want that when you click a magnet link a torrent application automatically opens and you dont have to copy the magnet link manually? If this is the case follow the steps below or else get back to me and please make me understand something i didn't get. Let's begin :
Basically, magnet links is just an easier way to download torrents as supposed to .torrent files. IMO, I see no major difference besides fewer clicks to download. Magnet links are typically available on The Pirate Bay among others such as KickAssTorrents, which I think is going into magnets or already is in.
Long story short, you need a torrent client such as uTorrent or Transmission which is available pre-installed in every major Linux distro such as Linux Mint and Ubuntu. I think Fedora has Deluge pre-installed but I'm not sure. I haven't used Fedora in a while.
To clarify, Firefox isn't able to open .magnet files without a torrent client such as uTorrent or Transmission. Firefox is able to download it and prompt you to open it with torrent software but not view .magnets natively. There's a few add-ons that allow you to download .magnets from within Firefox.
I think devs should not get into the life of people, if people wants to use magnet links, let them use them, at least is good to know that firefox still allows that, Talha: thankyou for answer as well.
Every time I download a torrent file (.torrent), Firefox thinks I should open it with a text editor. How can I get it to open with Transmission? In Edit -> Preferences -> Applications, there's no setting for torrent files, and no apparent way to add a new filetype.
B. Select the Applications menu and search for BitTorrent seed file or application/x-bittorrent or torrent. Change the Always ask or Use gedit (default) to transmission-gtk by selecting Use other... and click File System in the side bar, then browse to /usr/bin.
Another more user-friendly way to add a new file type to the Edit -> Preferences -> Applications window is by downloading a file that has the file format you want to add, selecting any option, and selecting the "Do this automatically for files like this from now on." checkbox. Source: firefox doc.
The answer depends on whether the server sends you the correct mime type (not just the file with the right extension). You can check whether the server is sending the correct mime type by installing the Live HTTP Headers addon for Firefox. (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.) If it does, then Firefox will be able to open the file with the default application currently setup on your computer. 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, however, the server sends .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. But every so often you are willing to take a risk, you can try -US/firefox/addon/force-content-type/, but keep in mind that this extension is considered buggy and may actually make the matters worse.
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. It can even remove the files after it added them. You will find that in the settings of Transmission.
A little bit more up-to-date solution (here, specifically Ubuntu 16.04 + FireFox 51.0.1). Useful if "torrent" doesn't appear in the Applications Menu; specially if the prompt doesn't give you the "open with" option.
Firefox, most likely will have no clue what to do with it --- well, not exactly --- and will ask you where to open it. Select the program you want (probably in the /usr/bin/ folder for most linux users), tell it to remember and you should be good to go, since from now on it'll give you the option to automatically open torrents with your desired program.
BitTorrent peer to peer file sharing is still going strong after all these years. This is even after attempts by several countries to ban tracker sites like The Pirate Bay and others at the ISP level. Even though torrents are mostly associated with downloading pirated and copyright infringing files, there are still many legitimate uses that rely on the same peer to peer (P2P) distribution method.Lots of free software is offered for download over torrent P2P, such as Linux ISOs. In the past, game developers have also used it to distribute game patches and updates. You can even download drivers for utilities like Snappy Driver Installer using P2P. Sadly a number of organizations can block the use of torrent software as it is a huge drain on the network because it connects to many other computers at the same time.
Even your ISP could throttle torrents and slow them to a crawl of only a few KB/s for the same reason. To get around the restriction on using dedicated torrent clients or ISP imposed speed throttling, there are a few things you can try to still be able to use torrents.
Torrent Tornado has enough functions for most average users and it accepts .torrent files, magnet links, HTTP/FTP URLs or torrent hashes. Press the Add new torrent button to start and after adding the source for the torrent, it will show the details for the download and then offer the choice of which files to download from within the torrent. The small Settings button controls options such as save folder, file associations, memory cache, maximum peers and download speeds.
Note: Torrent Tornado will install directly from the add-on page if you are using Waterfox. If you use Pale Moon or Seamonkey, download the extension file first and then drop it onto the browser extensions window.
This method has a few advantages. It bypasses P2P traffic shaping from an ISP and also keeps you safe from anti-P2P organizations monitoring copyright infringing torrents. You are not torrenting, the service is. You merely download the finished file just like any other file. A drawback is most free services are quite limited unless you pay for a subscription.
Another service currently with a 2GB file limit and unlimited bandwidth is Transfercloud. There are other services available like Filestream, Bitport, and ZBigZ but they have low file size limits or slow download speeds. They work but we believe they are too limited to be of any great use.
Something more recent that includes a built in torrent client is Torch Browser. Torch also includes a download accelerator, social sharing button, games portal, music portal, media player, and a media grabber that downloads on page audio and video.
While you might not be able to install or run a dedicated torrent client, it may be possible to run a standard file download manager. There are many around that handle normal file downloads but a few free managers are also able to download torrents. Flashget and Free Download manager are two that can handle torrents.
To control speeds, Free Download Manager has Low, Medium or High speed limit modes and a Snail Mode which will concede bandwidth to other traffic. Traffic limit speeds, connections and a few torrent specific options like DHT, used ports and port forwarding can be controlled via the Settings window. Right click on the torrent download to set its priority, whether to seed, setup scheduling or to force a recheck/reannounce. 2ff7e9595c
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