How to Allow Pop-Ups on Your PC

Users typically want their browsers to block pop-ups, but there are times when pop-ups are strictly necessary. Sometimes, web-based forms will try to open a dialog box that your browser will view as a threat and kill off before it gets to you. In cases like this, the only way to complete the task at hand is to dig into the settings and disable pop-up blocking. Here's how to allow pop-ups on Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera, and Microsoft Edge.

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.

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."

Opera, being a fork of the same underlying browser that Chrome is, has a very similar settings structure to Chrome.