Re: IE6 and others. This is all a filthy lie, right? Whenever a pop-up is blocked, a little yellowish bar atop the screen says, “Pop-up blocked. To see this pop-up or additional options click here…”
After clicking, I’m brought to a little menu and the four options are:
Temporarily allow pop-ups
Always allow pop-ups from this site
Settings
Information bar help
Which one of these options allows me to see the pop-up that was blocked? IE has been lying to me all these years, or I am missing something. In some cases, I’ll refresh the page and hold down the Ctrl button to see what I missed, but on some sites refreshing is ill-advised because I’ll end up being double-charged, or some other thing that would make refreshing a bad idea. Can I see the pop-up without refreshing?
Thanks.
Well, they don’t see the problem between THAT specific blocked pop-up, and refreshing the page with popups allowed. Typical microsoft, I suppose, they mean well, but miss the details 
One of the forums I go to often will attempt to launch a popup when you arrive (or log in) and have a PM waiting. But it will only do that the first time in your browser session.
So when I refresh - it doesn’t send the popup that time. 
At least there’s still a link to get to the PMs feature.
I’m forced to use IE at work, and “Always allow pop-ups from this site” seems to bring up the blocked pop-up for me.
Yeah, I’m forced to use it here at work too. I just went to a site that I know uses pop-ups to try this, and it didn’t work. 
I’ll just chalk this up to another case of Microsoft-Sucks, unless someone knows something else.
Huh, I think any time I’ve done it, the pop-up in question comes out. Did you try kicking it really hard?
I kicked the computer, retried, tried on a different website, it still didn’t work, so I kicked the computer once more for good measure.
Oh, see, there’s your problem. You shouldn’t be kicking the hardware–you need to give a good swift one to the app in question, or possibly the OS.
I guess “eventually seeing the popup” counts as “seeing the popup”.
Firefox will allow you to see the pop-up, should you wish.
In my experience, “Temporarily allow pop-ups” will reload the page that tried to launch the pop-up in the first place, giving it another chance to appear.
I was just helping a co-worker last night with a page that had this problem, because she wasn’t noticing the message. We chose “Temporarily” and the page reloaded, she clicked on the “log in” button or whatever it was, and the pop-up appeared normally.
Gah. I tested again with “Temporarily allow,” and the screen refreshed, but I didn’t get the pop-up. Maybe it’s my computation machine.