Popup Blocker Information

Google Pop-up Blocker

The pop-up blocker in the Toolbar Options menu prevents Opens a new windows from automatically opening when you visit a website. Often times, these Opens a new windows display advertising that can interfere with your ability to see the content on the page you're trying to read. When the pop-up blocker intercepts an incoming ad, your cursor changes briefly to look like this: . The pop-up blocker button displays this icon: along with a count of the number of pop-ups blocked since the last Toolbar installation.

To let a pop-up through on a one-time basis, press and hold the CTRL key as you click on a link to navigate to a new page.

Sometimes sites communicate useful information via pop-up windows. The pop-up blocker can be told to remember these sites so pop-up windows are allowed to launch. This information is stored on your computer in what's known as a "whitelist" (as opposed to a "blacklist" ). The pop-up blocker uses the whitelist to turn itself off when you visit sites whose pop-ups you don't mind viewing.

As you find sites that have pop-ups you want to see, click the pop-up blocker button to add that site to your whitelist. (The whitelist is never actually displayed.) Repeat this process as you find websites where you want to see pop-ups.

If you'd like to remove a site from the pop-up blocker whitelist, simply visit that page and click the pop-up blocker button. The button text will change from "Site popups allowed" to the count of your blocked ads. This indicates that the pop-up blocker has been re-activated on this site.

To set the pop-up blocker count back to zero, hold down the 'Shift' and 'Alt' keys while clicking on the pop-up blocker button. You can also hide the pop-up count entirely by opening the Options window, selecting the More tab, and checking the box next to the setting "Hide popup blocker count."

To completely disable the pop-up blocker, open the Toolbar Options window and clear the checkbox next to pop-up blocker in the Accessories section.

The pop-up blocker is available only for Internet Explorer version 5.5 and later.

Yahoo and AOL

The Advanced Searchbar Pop-Up Blocker is turned on by default. You can turn it off and on again by simply clicking on the Pop-Up Blocker button on the Searchbar. The button will turn green indicating that all your web pop-ups will be blocked. It will also provide a counter that indicates the number of pop-ups the Advanced Searchbar has blocked to date.

EarthLink

Click the ON/OFF button to turn Pop-Up Blocker on or off. When on, the button is green. When off, the button is red.

MSN

Turn the Pop-up Guard on and off by clicking its button on the MSN Toolbar.

When the button label reads Pop-ups Blocked, the Pop-up Guard is turned on and most pop-up windows are blocked. The number of pop-up windows that have been blocked is shown in parentheses on the button.

When the button label reads Pop-ups Allowed, the Pop-up Guard is turned off, allowing all pop-up windows to appear

      

Windows XP - How to configure the Pop-up Blocker in Internet Explorer

The Pop-up Blocker may be turned on/off in the following ways:
  • When you are prompted.
  • On the Tools menu.
  • From Internet Options.

To turn on/off the Pop-up Blocker on the Tools menu, follow these steps:

  1. Click Start, point to All Programs, and then click Internet Explorer.
  2. On the Tools menu, point to Pop-up Blocker, and then click Turn On Pop-up Blocker.