Drag and drop link to desktop from Chromium

Hi, maybe my google fu skills are lacking and this belongs in the newbie corner -- but why can't I grab a link in chromium (in the address bar) and drag it to the desktop? I'm so used to doing it as a temporary bookmark in windows and macs that it always catches me off guard when it doesn't work. Google reports a workaround for nautilus where you drag it to the bookmark bar first then to the desktop. This doesn't seem to work with lxde/openbox.
Arch 3.6.10-1 x86_64 with openbox WM
Thanks and forgive me if this has been previously covered.

Lxde requires some custom configuration - there's no drag and drop solution at this stage.
To make a desktop link to a webpage, you need to create a file foo.desktop on the desktop (surprise surprise), open it with a text editor, and set some parameters in the following fashion
NAME=FOO
EXEC=chromium www.foo.com
ICON=chromium
This will set up a shortcut called foo with the chromium icon which links to www.foo.com
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