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Weaning Opera from the built-in torrent client

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Weaning Opera from the built-in torrent client

    I noticed that many of my friends, using Opera, are tormented with its built-in torrent download client.

    Having realized that it doesn’t work on 90% of trackers, they save .torrent files to disk (by right-clicking to open the context menu and selecting “Save Object”), go to the download tab and, launching the torrent from there, finally open it in your client.

    Oh horror, people, stop! :)

    After all, this is all set up in 30 seconds and then done in one:

    Go to the Tools menu -> Settings -> Advanced tab -> Download section
    Enter torrent into the quick search line (do not forget to uncheck “Do not show opera files”)


    Select the desired type, click "Change", select "Show download dialog" (I think it is optimal)


    Voila! Now, when you click on .torrent download, we see the familiar dialog box, by clicking "Open" we immediately get our file in our favorite torrent client.


    ps Naturally, the torrent client should be attached to files of the .torrent type.

    Alternative method:
    In the address bar, type: opera: config
    Find “BitTorrent”, uncheck “Enable”, click “Save” (You can click here to go directly to desired setting item)

    Small victories over the interface in the name of saving time and nerves.

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