Pop-Up Blockers

What are Pop-Up Blockers?

A pop-up blocker is a toolbar option that your computer uses to prevent new windows from automatically opening up when you visit a website.  Often times, these new windows display advertising that can interfere with your ability to see the content of the page you are trying to view.

Sometimes sites communciate useful information via pop-up windows.  This is the case for our e-learning courses whether you are trying to purchase the course or take the course.  The pop-up blocker can be told to remember these sites so pop-up windows will be allowed to launch.  By adding the web address of the site in which you would like to view the pop-up windows, you will gain full accessibility to the site.

There are many pop-up blocking utilities on the market today.  Below is a list of some of the more popular ones.  One way to test if your computer has a pop-up blocker installed is to visit http://www.popuptest.com/ and click on the Multi Pop-up link. It will open 10 pop-up windows, if it does not then you most likely have a pop-up blocker installed on your computer.

How to add the International Foundation's site to my Pop-Up Blocker settings so that I can access the site?

Some pop up blockers may interfere with parts of the system. Make sure that your pop-up blocker is disabled. If you are not sure click and hold the control key when you click on a link. Holding the control key when clicking disables your pop-up blocker. If you have the Yahoo or Google Toolbar you will need to disable the pop-up blocker.

There are several pop-up blockers available. Here is a list of the most popular and how to disable them:

Google ^TM Toolbar

Yahoo ^® Toolbar

AOL ^® Toolbar

Microsoft Windows XP (SP2)

Pop-Up Stopper

Mozilla

Firefox

Popup Manager (for Internet Explorer)

Norton Internet Securities

Google Toolbar

If the Google Toolbar is blocking the  e-learning site, there are three ways to disable it:

• 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.
• The pop-up blocker can also remember certain sites (like http://www.ifebp.org/) and allow them to launch pop-up windows. To add STARetail to your list of permitted sites, click on the pop-up blocker button while viewing the e-learning home page (http://www.ifebp.org/elearning).
• To completely disable the pop-up blocker, click the Options button in the Google toolbar and clear the checkbox next to Popup Blocker in the Accessories section.

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Yahoo Toolbar

If Pop-Up Blocker is blocking e-Learning, there are three ways to override it:

• Turn off Pop-Up Blocker by clicking the Pop-Up Blocker menu and deselect Enable Pop-Up Blocker. The toolbar button changes to indicate that the blocker is disabled.
• Press and hold the Ctrl key while clicking a link to override Pop-Up Blocker and allow any pop-up windows resulting from the click.
• Add the source of the pop-up window to your Allowed List by clicking the Pop-Up Blocker menu and selecting Always Allow Pop-Ups From.... Then select e-Learning from the Sources of Recently Blocked Pop-Ups list and click Allow.

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AOL Toolbar 

Click Settings on the AOL toolbar.

• Click Pop-Ups in the Essentials tab.
• In the Web Pop-Ups tab of the Pop-Up Control Settings window, select Allow Web pop-ups from these sites from the available options.
• Enter http://www.ifebp.org/elearning and http://blue.isoph.com/ click Add. Click Save.

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Microsoft Windows XP (SP2)

When you install the Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), Pop-up Blocker is automatically turned on in Internet Explorer and set to the medium setting, which means that it will block most automatic pop-ups. To allow Pop-ups from the e-Learning site:

1. Launch an Internet Explorer browser window.
2. In the Tools toolbar menu, point to Pop-up Blocker, and then click Pop-up Blocker Settings.
3. Type http://www.ifebp.org/elearning and http://blue.isoph.com/ in the Address of Web site to allow box, and then click Add. Click the Close button to exit.

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Pop-Up Stopper

If you have Pop-Up Stopper, an icon will appear in the bottom right hand corner of your screen.

1. To disable the blocker, right-click on the Pop-Up Stopper software icon.
2. Un-check the checkbox next to Enable pop-up blocking.
3. You can re-enable the software when you are finished on the e-Learning site. 

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Mozilla

Open the Edit toolbar menu and choose the Preferences option.

• On the right-hand column, under the Privacy & Security Preferences category, click on the Popup Windows topic. (If no sub-categories are visible, double-click on the title Privacy & Security to expand the list.)
• You can either de-select the box next to Block unrequested popup windows to completely disable the pop-up blocking software, or add e-Learning to a list of allowed sites.
• To do this, click the Allowed Sites... button, type http://www.ifebp.org/elearning  or http://blue.isoph.com/ into the text field, and then click the Add. Click OK.
• An alternative method of doing this is to browse to the SHRM e-Learning website (http://www.ifebp.org/elearning), and then click on the Tools toolbar menu. Choose Popup Manager and then select the Allow popups From This Site option.

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Firefox

Go to the Tools toolbar menu and select Options....

• When the Options window opens, click on the Web features icon in the left-hand panel.
• Uncheck the box next to Block Popup Windows. Then, click the OK button to exit the Options window.
• Alternatively, you can leave the Block Popup Windows box checked and click on the Allowed Sites button to the right of it. In the Allowed Sites window that opens, type http://www.ifebp.org/elearning and  http://blue.isoph.com/ in the text field beneath Address of the web site. Click the Allow button to the right of the text field and then click OK.

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Popup Manager (for Internet Explorer)

Go to the Tools toolbar menu and select Options....

• When the Options window opens, click on the Web features icon in the left-hand panel.
• Uncheck the box next to Block Popup Windows. Then, click the OK button to exit the Options window.
• Alternatively, you can leave the Block Popup Windows box checked and click on the Allowed Sites button to the right of it. In the Allowed Sites window that opens, type http://www.ifebp.org/elearning and http://blue.isoph.com/ in the text field beneath Address of the web site. Click the Allow button to the right of the text field and then click OK.

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Norton Internet Securities

One of the more common popup blockers now is included in Norton's Internet Security suite.

One of the easiest ways to identify if you have Norton's Internet Security suite is to locate the icon in the system tray (see image below). This is also how you can disable it temporarily.

To disable it:

1. Right click on the icon
2. Choose Disable from the menu

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