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Sometimes huge, all-in-one applications just aren't the answer.
In trying to please everyone, these memory hogs are way too much
tool for the job, obese with features that you never use. To avoid
this bloated fate, browsers have been modeled after the vacuum cleaner:
Along with the basic machine, you can get a variety of attachments
- an extended and slender wand for hard to reach cracks, a toothy
thing for drapes, a furry nozzle for those special furry-nozzle
jobs. The browser's attachments are called plug-ins. Created by
third-party software developers, these small, single-minded applications
each have a specific function, so users need only download the plug-in
that performs the function that interests them. And when you try
to access a file that requires a plug-in - like a sound or movie
- the necessary plug-in launches automatically. Most browsers now
come pre-packaged with the most popular plug-ins, and users can
acquire the additional ones they need as they go along. (If you
don't have the required plug-in, you're usually asked if you want
to download it right then and there.) So, just by cruising around
the Web, you eventually end up with a Cinderella-slipper-perfect
browser that's tricked-out with just the capabilities you need.
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