Best way to open an URL in Vim

Depending on how your vim binary was built you can just give vim the url:

vim http://www.google.com/

Vim spawns curl and grabs the file, then opens it.

Assuming you want to just open a link in vim, how about this:

curl http://www.google.com | vim -

EDIT to make this command easier you can always user your browser of choice's "Copy link address" option.

EDIT Given @speshak's answer and my own, I would say the "easiest" way would be option 3, "a command line command".