Description of problem: When clicking on any MIME content that browser can't handle, it will download it rather than opening it with the default MIME handler for this file type. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): chromium-55.0.2883.87-1.fc24.R.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install chromium and transmission-qt packages 2. Open the following URL in Chromium: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/bt-cd/debian-8.7.1-amd64-CD-1.iso.torrent Actual results: It will either download the file into your "Downloads" directory, or ask for a download location, depending on browser settings. Expected results: Should either allow to choose between download/launch, or launch with the default MIME file type handler. Additional info: Response header for the above URL contains: Content-Type: application/x-bittorrent The command: xdg-mime query default application/x-bittorrent reports "transmission-qt.desktop"
Filed upstream as https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=733293
Okay. Upstream confirms that this is the intended behavior (not to open any downloads until the user clicks on it). You can override this by editing your ~/.config/chromium/Default/Preferences file. Search for: "extensions_to_open":"" and change it to: "extensions_to_open":"torrent" You can also accomplish this by clicking the ^ next to the downloaded torrent and selecting "Always open files of this type".