Cannot download torrents with Tor bowser

[willieaames]

If you want to run torrents and mostly hide your IP, buy a vpn or ssh service hosted in a country with "better" laws. Buy it from a company that keeps no logs and supports (mostly) anonymous payment. Set up a VM, or dedicated box that only connects to the outside world via your vpn or ssh tunnel. Don't do normal browsing on it, only for torrenting. Yes it costs money, yes it works better then nearly every free alternative for downloading torrents.

[pooky2483]

I'm having the same problem.
I am using a VPN
I can download .torrent files in firefox & chrome as they're set to pass the link to Ktorrent, yet TOR does nothing with the link, I don't even get asked what I want TOR to do with the link.
My version of TOR has literally just been updated to the newest version 7.5.5

Any idea where I need to go in the settings to allow TOR to interact with the links?

[Sid]

Tor Browser does do something with the link: it ignores it.

It does so because, in general, opening a non-secure application e.g. your direct-routing torrent client from within a secure application e.g. your onion routing browser risks exposing your identity.

It happens that in this case you know what you are doing, and you want to do it, but Tor Browser doesn't know that so it is protecting you.

It might be nice if it allowed you to opt-out of that protection, but it doesn't, so you just have to right-click on the link, copy it, and then paste it into your torrent client.

[jerrysmatrix]

If you insist on having this:
Go to about:config from the address bar.
Right click on the list > New > Boolean > name it network.protocol-handler.external.magnet and give it a true value

However, I can't say I'd recommend this. Like already stated, it could result in your identity being compromised. Even if you're opening a secure application, everything in between on the OS' API is plain text.

Edit:
Well so is the clipboard...

There was a good reason not to do this, but I forget exactly why.