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How to disable Opera’s BitTorrent client?

Published February 23rd, 2007 12:06 PM EST By Daniel Goldman

I get many questions about Opera’s built-in BitTorrent client from Opera users. The most popular question I get is how to disable the Opera browser from downloading the torrent files, and instead use their preferred torrent client.

What’s good for some isn’t for others. I, for example, only use Opera’s built-in BitTorrent client for small downloads, for bigger ones, however, I use a program called BitTornado.

There isn’t any option in the preference dialog (Tools > Preferences) or even on the torrent dialog pop-up (I don’t know why that is). So here’s how to disable it.

To disable the BitTorrent client in Opera:

  1. Copy and paste the following into the address bar (the URL bar): opera:config#BitTorrent|Enable
  2. Unselect “Enable”
  3. Click “Save”

To use another BitTorrent client with Opera:

  1. Go to Tools > Preferences > Advanced > Downloads
  2. Unselect “Hide file types opened with Opera”
  3. Type “torrent” in the Quick find box
  4. Double-click the line that looks like this: application/x-bittorrent torrent
  5. Select “Open with default application”
  6. Click “OK”

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  1. 1 Ramunas Feb 23rd, 2007 at 2:24 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.20 on Linux Linux

    I’ve made a quick video tutorial how to disable bittorrent client in Opera, its pretty simple, but video material never hurts. You can download it here: http://ramunas.ezoshosting.com/guide.mpeg

  2. 2 Daniel Goldman Feb 23rd, 2007 at 2:37 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Windows Windows XP

    Ramunas, I tried playing the video, but couldn’t. Which format is it?

    P.S. You should’ve made the file available as a torrent. :)

  3. 3 Ramunas Feb 23rd, 2007 at 2:51 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.20 on Linux Linux

    Its in MPEG4 (DIVX). VLC plays it just fine.

  4. 4 Ramunas Feb 23rd, 2007 at 3:07 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.20 on Linux Linux

    Fixed, try again, now it should play just fine.

  5. 5 ResearchWizard Feb 23rd, 2007 at 3:11 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.12 on Windows Windows XP

    I had a similar but different request some time ago how to use the torrent functionality build in Opera and an external client (Azureus) at users choice for a torrent-link.
    I posted some ideas and a guide how to achive this with download-settings and refined right-click menu file and additionally there are the menu.ini files for download.

  6. 6 Daniel Goldman Feb 23rd, 2007 at 3:14 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Windows Windows XP

    Ramunas, nice. It worked.

  7. 7 Nike Feb 23rd, 2007 at 3:40 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.20 on Windows Windows XP

    Daniel, dont use bittornado, try utorrent instead. Far better client!

  8. 8 Daniel Goldman Feb 25th, 2007 at 11:09 am
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Windows Windows XP

    Nike, I tried it a long time ago, back when they had issues with their new Java client — but I’ll try again.

  9. 9 BAMAToNE Feb 26th, 2007 at 12:07 am
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Windows Windows XP

    Another vote for uTorrent here.

  10. 10 masked_superstar Feb 26th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Windows Windows XP

    thank you.

    i’ve been saving then opening, this should save me a click.

  11. 11 Ramunas Feb 27th, 2007 at 11:52 am
    using Opera Opera 9.20 on Linux Linux

    Sorry, I’ve moved my tutorials to Opera Community now, here’s the link:
    http://my.opera.com/Ramunas/blog/show.dml/774453

  12. 12 Connor Apr 27th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.20 on Windows Windows XP

    I think you are thinking Azureus as far as a java bittorrent client. Utorrent is my favorite and would recommend you give it a try. Thanks for the guide.

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