How to Enable Pop-Ups in Chrome
Users typically want their browsers to block pop-ups, but there are times when pop-ups are necessary. When web-based forms try to open a dialog box that your browser views as a threat, the browser prevents it from getting to you. In cases like this, the only way to complete the task is to dig into the browser settings and disable pop-up blocking. Here’s how to enable pop-ups in the Chrome browser.
How to Enable Pop-Ups in Opera
Opera, being a fork of the same underlying browser that Chrome is, has a similar settings structure to Chrome.
How to Allow Pop-Ups in Microsoft Edge
The process of unblocking pop-ups is similar in Microsoft Edge.
How to Allow Pop-Ups on Internet Explorer
Follow these steps to allow pop-ups in Internet Explorer:
Why Allow Pop-Ups?
It might seem like there’s no reason to ever want pop-ups, but there are definitely times when you need them to be active. Some websites surface their login dialog boxes using a pop-up. Others use pop-ups as components for web-based forms or survey pages, but often the form can’t be properly completed if these pop-ups aren’t allowed to emerge. For all of these, allowing all pop-ups is the best way to ensure the correct pop-up dialog boxes appear so you can accomplish whatever you’re there to do.
How to Test Pop-up Blocking
There are a number of websites dedicated purely to testing your browser’s handling of various kinds of pop-up dialog boxes. Since we’re trying to ensure they do appear, you can use the simplest version of this test, which is to see if a small separate browser window with no address bar appears. You can select any pop-up test website you prefer, but for the purposes of this walkthrough, we’ll use PopupTest’s first test: “Multi-PopUp Test.”
