Category: Software

Add this to your registry and it’ll fix the problem instead of having to jump through hoops and install an old version of chrome. That being said — this was changed for a reason so just realize if you do this you’re bypassing chrome security for all magnet links on the internet.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome\URLWhitelist
Name = 1 (Can be any number)
Type = String (REG_SZ)
Data = magnet:*

This happens on fresh installed windows and chrome too. It looks like Chrome does not save protocol_handler in preferences file if json attribute is empty. Try this:

1. close chrome

2. open this file in editor i.e. notepad++: c:\users\[YOUR_WINDOWS_USER_NAME]\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Preferences

or something like:

c:\users\[YOUR_WINDOWS_USER_NAME]\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\[YOUR_CHROME_PROFILE]\Preferences

3) search for THE_LAST occurrence of text:

“protocol_handler”

4) replace this text: “protocol_handler”:{}

or

“protocol_handler”:{“excluded_schemes”:{}}

or

“protocol_handler”:{ANYTHING_INSIDE_THOSE_BRACKETS}

with:

“protocol_handler”:{“excluded_schemes”:{“afp”:true,”data”:true,”disk”:true,”disks”:true,”file”:true,”hcp”:true,”javascript”:true,”magnet”:false,”mailto”:false,”ms-help”:true,”news”:false,”nntp”:true,”shell”:true,”snews”:false,”vbscript”:true,”view-source”:true,”vnd”:{“ms”:{“radio”:true}}}}

5) you’re good to go, open chrome, click magnet link, check checkbox, click magnet link again – there should be no popup

Probably there is another solution, because people are reporting that after some time (like 3 months 😉 the problem went away. I’m guessing that they clicked something in settings or clicked another protocol that actually got saved in Chrome Preferences and then magnet link protocol got properly saved too.

Sorry for my English, I’m trying to do my best 😉 I hope this helps in your case, good luck!