Most users who have that I know do the following when they want to open a link or a website that is displayed in one browser in another: They click in the address bar field of the browser and mark all of the address. Advanced users may use the shortcut Ctrl-a after clicking for the same effect. They then right-click and select Copy (or press Ctrl-c) to copy the website address to the clipboard. Then they open a new tab in the second web browser and paste the url into the address field there. In the final step they click the load button or press enter.

That’s a lot of work for a very simple operation. If you have enough screen estate you may be able to run both Internet browsers on the screen at the same time. If you do, you can use simple drag and drop operations to open a link or open website in one web browser in another.

This works with all browsers that I have tested. You can drag and drop from and to Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera and Internet Explorer.

To drag you move the mouse over the favicon of the website or the link in question, click and hold the left-mouse button and drag the address into the other web browser. You can drop it anywhere there and the website will be loaded in the active or the selected tab.

It is such a simple thing that can make such a big difference in day to day work. Did you know about this method? Or do you know of other (browser) related tips that optimized your workflow significantly?

The article is divided into ten parts and you have to click on the numbers below each part to navigate to the rest. A far better way would be to scan the page for a PRINT button, because this usually opens a new window with the full article without advertisement and navigation.

I do use this trick for several years and it is working perfectly on those websites. The print function at Information Week opens the complete article at once.

A few words about why they do this, why websites divided articles into smaller parts. They are not thinking about the reader here, that they don’t want him to scroll the article for instance. They don’t want him to scroll the article for another reason, advertisement. It is all about ads on the page.

The longer an article gets the lesser ads you will most likely see. Ads tend to concentrate on the top, and maybe at the very bottom. Another reason for dividing up articles is the increase in Pageviews. Advertisers love Pageviews. If you tell them that your readers view 10.0 pages per visit instead of 1.0 page per visit they are impressed.

More pages also increases the time visitors stay on a website which is another important figure for advertisers. Oh, and you do earn more if you sell direct advertisement. If you get 1000 visitors per day and publish one article per day you would get 1000 pageviews if each visitor would read one article. If you divided that article by ten pages you would get a figure much higher, close to 10000 depending on how many visitors decided to quit reading because of the navigation.