![]() especially clients that can handle both torrents and magnet links. Here's a page on it in BitTorrent's own forum:Īnyhoo, I'm open to suggestions of "bug-free" torrent clients. It works in much the same way as other browsers on the market, such as Internet Explorer, Firefox and Google Chrome, and includes a number of features that have. The only difference appears to be that the browser hijack with uTorrent favors Yahoo searches while the browser hijack with BitTorrent favors Bing searches. When you click on a torrent file, Firefox asks you what you want to do. Here's a mention of this Conduit Search/uTorrent partnership in uTorrent's own forum:īitTorrent also has a partnership with Conduit Search. In Firefox you can customize the way file extensions (.torrent) are handled. and the Yahoo Error Handler issue disappeared. After I was done, I checked out "about :config" and was able to reset (remove) any mention of Conduit Search in Firefox. And to delete some of them, I needed "Administrator" privileges. To get rid of it, I had to do a system search for any files/directories using the "Conduit" term as part of it's name. I always press open with Mutorrent and press button use as default program. You may see it referred to as Firefox Quantum. Every time I try to download any torrent file browser asks what program to use. But Conduit Search didn't show up as an installed program. I want the 'open with' query when I click a torrent link so that I can assign a bittorrent client. Firefox This is the standard version of Firefox that most people use. remaining dormant until my November 7th auto-update to Firefox 25.īTW, when I first noticed this bug, I ran Spybot, Superantispyware, and Avast scans for malware - coming up empty. So, they must have been added to my Firefox plug-ins (without my knowledge) when I installed uTorrent. Note that these two plug-ins are not available on the Mozilla site. But in my Firefox extensions menu, it showed plug-ins for both uTorrent and Conduit Search (which web research told me had partnered with uTorrent). Basically, it was a Yahoo search page telling me the page didn't exist. But starting on the 7th, it took me to a "Page not found Yahoo Error Handler" page. Before the 7th, if I clicked on a link to a page that no longer existed, a Firefox window opened telling me so. For example, I was using uTorrent without issue until my Firefox auto-updated itself to Firefox 25 on November 7th. It seems like most modern torrent software developers have aligned themselves with toolbar purveyors and other invasive "companion" software. Just curious if such a thing exists nowadays.
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