Vivaldi always asks to open magnet links

enompado

Vivaldi keeps asking to open magnet links since version 4.1. The solution here does not work:
https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/368978

Pathduck

@enompado Yes, you have to click it every time unless you select "Always allow" in the dialog. For me I only use a handful of magnet sites regularly, so I have no problem setting those to always allow.

This is nothing new in 4.1, it's been like this since 4.0 at least, probably much longer.

enompado

What is new for me is that there is no longer an "always allow" in dialogue. Else there would be no problem.

Pathduck

@enompado You don't see this?

Try in a clean Vivaldi profile.
https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/tools/user-profiles/

enompado

Ok, its available in another profile. What could be the reason and how to solve in my default profile?

Pathduck

@enompado That would be harder to answer, as I have no clue as to why it's showing in my profile. You might need to reset your Preferences file, but will also have to redo some settings in Vivaldi.

Close all instances of Vivaldi
In your Vivaldi user profile folder (from Help > About), find the file Preferences and copy it to a backup somewhere, then delete it.
Start Vivaldi.

trevorvdw

I am having the same issue with there being no checkbox to always use qbittorrent when I click on a magnet link but weirdly it seems to matter which torrent search site I use. e.g. site1 = no checkbox. site2 = checkbox. So the question then for me is, what is making Vivaldi act differently per site? I've already deleted my user data folder and tried a new profile, deleted browsing data, etc. and it acts the same way each time. Is it maybe something to do with how site1 has their magnet links coded on their page?

I tried Brave and Firefox for comparison and both have a checkbox to always use on both the search sites I tried previously and once checked for one magnets open in qbittorrent for the magnet links on any site. With Vivaldi if I check the checkbox when opening a link from site2 it then automatically opens magnet links but only from that site, try from site1 still prompts but the dialog doesn't have the checkbox to always open with... very odd.

Pathduck

@trevorvdw I get the checkbox on both sites.

Did you try what I suggested?

I don't really know what causes this behaviour. I do know that when you choose "Always allow" this is saved in Preferences in JSON format like this:

"protocol_handler": {
	"allowed_origin_protocol_pairs": {
		"https://example.com": {
			"magnet": true
		},

TIP: When posting domains of pirate/illegal sites, don't post it directly because it will be hotlinked. Use code blocks - `like this`. Or it might attract moderator ire

trevorvdw

@pathduck Oops sorry, will remove the links. Yes, did your suggestion but unfortunately it had no effect.

Pathduck

@trevorvdw It's strange - from my searching I think this might be controlled by a GPO:
https://www.reddit.com/r/qBittorrent/comments/ewxq5o/psa_how_to_automagically_open_magnet_links_in/
https://superuser.com/questions/1481851/disable-chrome-to-ask-for-confirmation-to-open-external-application-everytime

But I can't see that I have such a policy on my system registry.
But I might have had it at some time, and the setting has stuck in Vivaldi.
Then again, that doesn't explain why I also have the checkbox in a clean profile.
So it must be picking it up from somewhere, but what.

Might be worth trying that policy on your system though. Problem is, once you start adding policies some settings in Chromium base will be locked off.

See also old post:
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/42654/restore-protocol-handler-permission-lost-in-chrome-77
I don't think that solution works anymore though, it needs to be set per site now.

enompado

I found the reason why it behaves this way. I use a javascript and inject it with Tampermonkey to add magnet links. And the javascript opens magnetlinks via a new tab, which probably results in no site rule being applied.