

This solution for popup blocker checking has been tested in FF (v11), So the first one is blocked, and the second one is not. The difference is that Firefox treats a timeout of 2000ms or less are acceptable, but after it – removes the “trust”, assuming that now it’s “outside of the user action”. …And this works in Firefox too: // open after 1 seconds

The popup opens in Chrome, but gets blocked in Firefox.

But what is the popup opens in setTimeout? If the code is directly in an onclick handler, then that’s easy. If you think about it, that’s a bit tricky. Most browsers block popups if they are called outside of user-triggered event handlers like onclick. So now most browsers try to block popups and protect the user. A bad page could open tons of popup windows with ads. In the past evil sites abused popups a lot. As of now, there are other ways to do that: JavaScript is able to send requests for server, so popups are rarely used. The initial idea was to show another content without closing the main window. See the Apple Support article Block pop-up ads and windows in Safari.Popups exist from really ancient times. If you block pop-ups on a website, but you continue to see pop-ups on the website, you might have unwanted software on your Mac. If you don’t see Configured Websites, either you haven’t set pop-up blocking for any sites yet, or you’ve cleared the list.Ĭlick the “When visiting other websites” pop-up menu, then choose one of the following:īlock and Notify: Pop-ups for the website don’t appear, but when you visit a website with blocked pop-ups, you can choose to show them by clicking the Show button in the Smart Search field.īlock: Pop-ups for the websites don’t appear. If there are websites listed below Configured Websites, and you want to change the settings for these sites (for example, they’re set to Allow, but you want to change them to Block), select each website, then click Remove. If you don’t see Pop-up Windows, be sure to scroll to the bottom of the list. In the Safari app on your Mac, choose, then click Websites.
