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Posted: **Thu May 09, 2019 6:42 pm**

When opening a magnet link in Chrome, I get the following error:

"Failed to open URI "magnet:?xt=urn:btih:98b91cec54ec82ae7cde4ef129f7fec3df6b2c8b&dn=+3+x86_64+DVD&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.istole.it%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.ccc.de%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337".

The specified location is not supported."

This just recently started happening in Chrome; magnet links work fine in Firefox. I'm using Linux Mint 19.1.

Any ideas on how to fix?

Posted: **Thu May 09, 2019 11:22 pm**

I found the solution

. My system did not have the default torrent program set.

I checked my default magnet handler by running this command line:

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gio mime x-scheme-handler/magnet

The above command showed that no default was set. To set it, I ran:

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mime x-scheme-handler/magnet qbittorrent.desktop

Now Chrome recognizes magnet links and opens qBittorrent as expected.

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[SOLVED] Getting "Failed to open URI Magnet" Errors in Chrome

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