I'm not sure whether to blame KDE, KTorent, or Firefox for this, and all three were very recently upgraded.

I'm currently using:
KDE 4.3.5
Firefox 3.5.6
KTorrent 3.2.3

With the old versions, I could visit a website, click a torrent link, and have the "Select Files" Dialog appear (this with KTorrent nicely hiding in the tray) With the new ersions, I have to explicitly save the torrent, bring up the ktorrent window, browse to it and start it. The previous behavior seems obiously to be the more correct behavior. The Application preference in firefox defines the content type 'TORRENT file' with the action 'Use ktorrent' KDE lists the Command for ktorrent invocation as 'ktorrent %i -caption "%c" %u'.

What needs to change to get the correct behavior back?

The content type here is BitTorrent seed file ("application/x-bittorent") and action is Use ktorrent. It automactly loads them in ktorrent. Problem is probably firefox.

Sam wrote:

Metraxis wrote:KTorrent 3.2.3

With the old versions, I could visit a website, click a torrent link, and have the "Select Files" Dialog appear (this with KTorrent nicely hiding in the tray)

KT 2.2.x worked the same way. 3.3.4 won't do that anymore either. You can have Firefox setup correctly, but the "Select Files" Dialogue will not come to the foreground like it use to.

Pretty Annoying,
Sam

The dialog should appear, unless the --silent option is passed to ktorrent

I appreciate the info, but foreground background isn''t the issue. It's that, while Firefox recognizes the link as a torrent (If I switch from "Use ktorrent" to "Always ask", it asks and offers ktorrent as the default), and apparently downloads the .torrent (download window flickers in and out of existence) ktorrent doesn't start it. With the KTorrent window present and not in the foreground, the behavior is the same.