IE Mode Popup Blocker

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IE Mode Popup Blocker

Barber Donte 1

My company just pushed a GPO policy to enable IE mode and a Site list. The push was successful. The problem is that a couple sites use popups. We currently do not have popup blocker enabled, on Edge or IE, but we still get this error, "You have a popup blocker enabled. Please disable the popup blocker to continue." Can anyone help with this issue?

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Answer 1

Anonymous

Hi @Barber Donte

You can check whether other policies have been pushed that configured the popup settings. The policy DefaultPopupsSetting may be the answer. For more information, you can read this doc.

Furthermore, you can take a look at your browser settings: Settings --> Cookies and site permissions --> Site permissions --> Pop-ups and redirects --> Switch off 'Block' (if on).

Since you have it in IE mode, you can also check whether the popup settings in IE has been enabled: Internet Options --> Privacy --> Uncheck "Turn on Pop-up Blocker".

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Barber Donte 1 Reputation point

2022-06-21T12:13:02.787+00:00

All of the options above have been applied, but I still get the same error saying that the popup has been blocked.
Anonymous

2022-06-22T02:34:04.92+00:00

Hi @Barber Donte

Do you have the same issue in Edge or it is just for the IE mode? On the other hand, is there any extension you have installed that may block popups? You can disable all extensions to see whether the issue still occurs.
Barber Donte 1 Reputation point

2022-06-22T15:13:15.623+00:00

The website and applications that we are trying to access work in Internet Explorer, they have not been configured to work in Edge. And the PC that I am working does not even have any extensions.
Anonymous

2022-06-23T09:33:40.723+00:00

Hi @Barber Donte

To verify if it is a specific issue of IE mode, please test the same page with popups in other browsers like Chrome, Firefox and so on.
If this issue only occurs in IE mode, I suggest configuring this policy to see if it works:
Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Internet Explorer > Internet Control Panel > Security Page > Internet Zone (or your actual zone) > Use Pop-up Blocker (you should select Enabled first, and in the inner dropdown menu select Disable)
Barber Donte 1 Reputation point

2022-06-23T18:59:50.843+00:00

Clarification: The application does not open but the popup blocker error does not appear once popup are allowed.

Answer 2

Barber Donte 1

I applied the policy setting that you suggested and a couple of the browsers. The application does not work in Chrome or Firefox either. The program works with IE mode set manually, but not on PCs with the GPO applied.

Anonymous

2022-06-24T08:05:24.33+00:00

Hi @Barber Donte

Do you mean you only have this issue on PCs with the IE mode policies configured, but everything's OK on PCs with IE mode manually enabled? It seems that the problem lies in policy settings. Would you please provide a screenshot of your policies in edge://policy/?
Before that, you can try adding the sites to the allow list in Internet Options: Internet Options --> Privacy --> Pop-up Blocker --> Settings --> Add sites
Barber Donte 1 Reputation point

2022-06-24T17:58:32.397+00:00

The popup blocker is off in Edge and IE.
Anonymous

2022-06-28T08:35:45.2+00:00

Hi @Barber Donte ,

It looks like that there is no problem with your configuration and Edge has applied these group policies. But I'm not sure if the configured IE_mode_sites .xml is correct, you can try navigating to edge://compat in Microsoft Edge and check if the configuration site is in the IE mode site list. Something like this:

And if this configuration file not be loaded correctly, you can try to click the Force update button to check if this work for you.

Answer 3

Barber Donte 1

Thanks to everyone for your help. No matter the good suggestions that I received the popup blocker still stopped the program from opening. I finally configured a different policy for the group that uses the program that is causing the popup issue. I am using the same site list, but I am not using GPO to Allow the "Allow sites to be reloaded in Internet Explorer mode (IE mode)".

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