This issue also occurs on Mandriva. It's not related to any kind of
transmission-gtk naming / desktop file / whatever issue for us, as it's
never been called that in our package.

I have brought this up with upstream. We believe it's a race condition
between Firefox and Transmission. Briefly, from 1.30 on, when
Transmission is already running and something runs 'transmission
sometorrent.torrent', a second transmission instance spawns, passes the
torrent filename on to the first via DBus, then shuts down again. We
believe that when it shuts down, Firefox then deletes the .torrent file
as it thinks the operation is complete. So if the first instance of
Transmission doesn't manage to pick everything up before Firefox deletes
the temporary file, the bug happens.

Upstream will look at fixing this by passing the entire torrent metainfo
over DBus rather than just passing the filename and relying on it still
being there for the first instance to look at.

Since 1.30 this is actually technically a different bug from what was
first reported both here and upstream, just to avoid confusion.

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Transmission doesn't open torrents via Firefox 3
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204184
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