How to disable Pop-Up Blocker

Pop-up blockers allow you to control what happens as you travel the web and prevent sites from filling your desktop with pop-up windows you do not want or need. Now all modern browsers have pop-up blockers. And the cyber-world is a better, neater place for it.

Many sites use pop-ups to provide more detail about a product or require users to open them to take full advantage of the data they make available. In some cases you need to turn offyour browser's pop-up blocker to get everything out of your Web experience. But sometimes disabling your blocker is easier said than done.

Here's How To:

1. Internet Explorer

If your pop-up blocker is turned on (IE's blocker is on by default) and you go to a site that has pop-ups, an information bar (red arrow) will appear at the top of your browser window telling you a pop-up has been blocked.

Clicking on the information bar will let you

temporarily allow pop-ups (from this site only),
always allow pop-ups from this site, or
adjust the pop-up blocker settings.

If you chose to temporarily allow pop-ups, that permission will expire when you close down your browser.
If you want to permanently disable the pop-up blocker in IE;

Open Internet Explorer
Select "Tools" from the main menu
Select "Pop-up Blocker" from the Tools menu
Select "Turn Off Pop-up Blocker" (red arrow)

2. Google Chrome

If your pop-up blocker is turned on (Chrome also turns it on by default) and the site you are on tries to send a pop-up, an icon that looks like a browser bar with a red 'x' will appear in your address bar (red arrow).