<![CDATA[Opera 21 and Unknown Protocol]]>Prior to yesterdays update I'd click a magnet link with the middle mouse button and it'd open a new tab with the magnet URL in the address bar and a message box blethering about unknown protocol. I'd then type one of my search keyword thingies "p2p " at the start of the url and opera would send it to my Vuse web interface which runs on a different PC.

As of 21 when I middle click the magnet link I get the same blethering message but loose the magent url and instead have "about:blank"

why? and how to I get the old functionality back?

cheers 'n beers

peel.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/2567/opera-21-and-unknown-protocolRSS for NodeTue, 21 Jul 2026 11:37:34 GMTWed, 07 May 2014 07:27:54 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Opera 21 and Unknown Protocol on Thu, 08 May 2014 07:18:39 GMT]]>thanks for your replies.

Afaik Opera will "send" the link to the default program that is set to handle the protocol.

I don't have anything installed on this PC that handles magnets. Nor can I. It's a work PC.

Seems to be caused by security changes in Opera 21.
Hm, maybe right-clicking the magnet link and selecting "Copy link address" won't satisfy you?

I suspect you may be right.

The copying links does work, it's just cumbersome - before it was much quicker to do and could mostly be done with the keyboard - once the links where opened in new tabs. Now it's much much slower requiring mostly mouse work.

cheers
peel.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/38211https://forums.opera.com/post/38211Thu, 08 May 2014 07:18:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Opera 21 and Unknown Protocol on Wed, 07 May 2014 19:54:59 GMT]]>Seems to be caused by security changes in Opera 21.

Hm, maybe right-clicking the magnet link and selecting "Copy link address" won't satisfy you?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/38154https://forums.opera.com/post/38154Wed, 07 May 2014 19:54:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Opera 21 and Unknown Protocol on Wed, 07 May 2014 19:41:42 GMT]]>Afaik Opera will "send" the link to the default program that is set to handle the protocol.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/38151https://forums.opera.com/post/38151Wed, 07 May 2014 19:41:42 GMT