So, for example, it would be acceptable for me to say that I'm literally crying tears of joy over this plug-in even though I'm not, but because the colloquial use figuratively gives me hives, I won't.

A newly published Microsoft patent shows that the company might be interested in introducing a browser plug-in to conserve computing resources. It would also presumably be different from ad blockers.

Google updated its Hangouts plug-in. Netflix wanted me to install a new version of Silverlight. But no matter how many times I installed those plug-ins, the installations didn’t seem to take ...