"Recently, while I was reading an article in the Firefox web browser, I happened to accidentally click on a link and drag it outside the browser. And the result was rather interesting. Gnome obediently created a shortcut to the webpage pointed by the link on the desktop. Seeing this and having piqued my curiosity, I decided to try a few other things and to put it lightly, I was surprised and pleased with the results. These are my findings..."