[tor-bugs] #5556 [Firefox Patch Issues]: magnet uri support

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#5556: magnet uri support
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     Reporter:  cypherpunks           |      Owner:  mikeperry
         Type:  enhancement           |     Status:  reopened
     Priority:  normal                |  Milestone:
    Component:  Firefox Patch Issues  |    Version:
   Resolution:                        |   Keywords:
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Comment (by aj):

 Replying to [comment:6 bastik]:
 > If I click on a link in TorBrowser and it opens some external
 application, which is not configured to use Tor I'm leaking. This sounds
 unsafe to me. I might be expecting such behavior, but what about some
 dude, that downloaded a torrent client, which is configured to work in the
 background?

 Surely a reasonable compromise is simply to caveat the permission request
 dialog with the appropriate warnings like the many other useful TorBrowser
 warnings?

 It seems much less reasonable that the 'click' goes nowhere - it's not
 even explicitly denied or declined in any way. Personally my first thought
 was that my computer had some problem with it's application 'bindings' as
 it felt like TorBrowser had handed off the request.

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