Chrome beta keeps forgetting default BitTorrent for magnet links

It was working on Chrome. I installed Chrome Beta. On Chrome Beta, it keeps asking if Vuze (my BitTorrent client) should be used to open the magnet link despite clicking the checkbox. I uninstalled Chrome after.

2 Answers

You want to look at the internal Chrome page for protocol/handlers

chrome://settings/handlers

I just encountered this issue and solved it by simply following these steps

1. Go to Chrome's user data directory. On Windows, that would be in the following path:

   C:\Users\[YOUR USER NAME]\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default

2. Open the file Preferences with a text-editor, e.g. Notepad or Notepad++.

3. Search for the following line or chunk of text:

   "protocol_handler":{"excluded_schemes":{}}

4. Replace it with the following string:

   "protocol_handler":{"excluded_schemes":{"magnet":false}}

Please note, if Chrome is running, some text-editor will prompt you to "reload the changed file". Don't do that, since it will reset the file to the version the browser knows it.

Instead, when done, it is a good idea to close your browser and then save the file.