Magnet links and Mozilla

[Sansculottes]

Hello,

I am a frequent LimeWire user and I would be like to be able to use Magnet links. Alas, at the moment, the current version of LW doesn't export Magnet Links via the clipboard except under Linux, which is one -- hopefully temporary -- limitation, but I would like to be able to click on a Magnet link Mozilla and have it passed to LW. However, when I do this, I get an error msg: "Magnet is not a registered protocol"

Does anyone know how to get this working under Mozilla?

[DaBlade]

I don't know about Limewire, but in Kazaa Lite Tools K++ you just get KMagnet to open it...
Sorry I couldn't help u more.

[gregorio]

Strange, LimeWire should try to register itself as the standard magnet handler, whenever you execute the LimeWire.exe file that comes with every installer...

[Sansculottes]

I am not using an installer. I am running LimeWire under OS/2; I download the Solaris gzip distribution and install it manually. Please give me instructions on how to register LimeWire with Mozilla manually. Thanks.

[gregorio]

Mozilla doesn't offer that kind of function. You could try activating the clipboard listener in the source code but I don't know if OS/2's java even has clipboard support.

[BigWillyStyle42]

Any Java VM v1.4.x and higher supports clipboards.

[Ooble]

Can I ask why you're using OS/2 in the first place?

[Sansculottes]

Mozilla doesn't offer that kind of function.

Are you saying Magnet Links only work with IE?

You could try activating the clipboard listener in the source code but I don't know if OS/2's java even has clipboard support.

Yes, pasting to and from LimeWire works fine.

[Sansculottes]

Can I ask why you're using OS/2 in the first place?

Sure. I have been using OS/2 since 1994 and up to now have had no compelling reason to abandon it. It is stable and robust, and I don't have to worry about all the virusses and worms from the Windows world. Thanks to its fine Java support, I can run P2P programs like LimeWire and xNap. There is also a recent version of Mozilla. In a few years' time, I'll probably have to migrate to something else, but I will cross that bridge when I come to it.

[Ooble]

That's fair enough. I suggest you take a peek at Linux though. I'm sure it'll be a lot better than a product that's 10 years old. Of course, if everything worked like that, then WinMX would suck, but still, it's worth a look.

[Sansculottes]

That's fair enough. I suggest you take a peek at Linux though

Actually, I would love to migrate to Linux, but I am not sure how. Right now, I don't want to spend two weeks tweaking configuration files. If I thought I could install it and have it up and running in a short order of time, I would do it tomorrow.

I'm sure it'll be a lot better than a product that's 10 years old.

Ummm, there is some misunderstanding here. OS/2 dates in fact from the late 1980s, so it is more like fifteen years old, but it is not like it has never been upgraded; quite the contrary. IBM has a huge installed base among large corporate customers which it continues to support and will not simply abandon on a whim. IBM has continued to bring out driver support for things like USB, so it is not like I am living in the dark ages. The version (=kernel) of OS/2 I am currently using dates from June of last year and it runs very well on my Pentium IV box. That being said, IBM has announced that it won't support OS/2 indefinitely and is encouraging its user to develop a migration plan in which Linux and Java figure very prominently. So, sooner or later, I will probably end up running Linux, but I am in no particular hurry.

[Ooble]

Well, I'm not gonna push you into anything. If you're happy, and you can do everything you want to do, then that's fine. But I don't think there's an answer to your problem.

[in_hiding]

@sansculottes: nice to see a user of an alternative OS here ; they've been an area of interest for me ever since Windows 98SE gave me 10 BSODs in one day. I even switched to BeOS for a while.
(BTW I don't consider Linux an 'alternative' OS anymore: after all, it's on millions of machines.)

re IBM stoppng support for OS/2 proper, have you considered the continuation of it, eComStation? Any thoughts on it?

[no_dammagE]

back to the topic again - did anyone manage to catch magnet links on a non-windows machine?
(/me running debian testing sarge distrib on 2.4.x)

[Sansculottes]

have you considered the continuation of it, eComStation? Any thoughts on it?

Actually, I am running eCS, ver 1.1 (I said OS/2 above because I am not sure how many people know what eCS is.) As you probably know, it is the base OS as mantained by Big Blue packaged by Serenity Systems. It is great. Robust, stable, plenty of software for it. For the rare occasions when I need te read an MS Office file, I have copy of Lotus SmartSuite; there is also OpenOffice. The only thing I miss is something to play RealAudio files, but that isn't enough to make me to switch to Windows. eCS is regularly updated and I expect to be using it for at least the next couple of years.

[Sansculottes]

But I don't think there's an answer to your problem.

In other words, Magnet Links only work on Windows systems. Ok. Maybe someday this will change. I hope so, since it seems like a great idea.

[Ooble]

I seriously doubt there will be a fix for OS/2. They'll probably add something for Linux though. Of course, there's always the DIY option - Mozilla is open-source...