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A container application is a native application that allows a web based application to access a computer's system resources and windowing system. If a container application is associated with a window, then the web based application can alter or control many, or all, aspects of the container application's content area and meta user interfaces (UIs). Web based applications are downloaded from application servers and run inside container applications. In one aspect, a container application is different from a web browser because browser applications can not control or alter meta UIs of the web browser. A container application can also reserve some of the computer's non-volatile memory and use it as container memory. Web based applications can use the container memory to store persistent data. A web based application is different from browser extensions because browser extensions must be installed and they become part of the web browser.
