How to Allow Pop-Ups in Chrome for One Site (Without Turning Off the Blocker)

How Do You Allow Pop-Ups in Chrome for One Site?

Chrome blocks pop-ups by default on every site. To allow them on one site without changing the setting everywhere else, use the site's permission menu in the address bar and switch Pop-ups and redirects to Allow. The change only applies to that one domain.

By default, Chrome treats every new pop-up window the same way: it silently stops the window from opening and shows a small icon so you know something was blocked. This protects you from ad pop-ups and scam windows, but it also catches legitimate pop-ups from sites you actually use, such as a printable invoice, a video call window, or a file picker for a cloud storage service.

1. Try the action that triggers the pop-up. If Chrome blocks it, a small Pop-up blocked icon appears on the right side of the address bar.
2. Click the icon, click the link for the blocked pop-up, then choose Always allow pop-ups and redirects from [site].
3. Click Done and repeat the action. The pop-up opens, and Chrome remembers this site going forward.

Common reasons people need this exception include a payroll or HR portal that opens a printable payslip in its own window, a webmail client that composes messages in a pop-up, a video conferencing tool that launches its call window separately from the tab that started it, and government or tax sites that generate downloadable forms in a new window rather than the current tab.

Step-by-Step: Allow a Site From Chrome's Settings Menu

If the address-bar icon isn't showing, or you want to add a site before visiting it, do this from Chrome's Settings instead. It's also where you review every site you've already allowed.

1. Open Chrome, click the three-dot menu, then Settings.
2. Select Privacy and security in the left sidebar.
3. Click Site settings.
4. Scroll to Permissions and click Pop-ups and redirects.
5. Next to Allowed to send pop-ups and use redirects, click Add.
6. Type the site's address, for example https://example.com, and click Add.

Chrome accepts a full domain, like https://example.com, or a specific subdomain, like https://accounts.example.com, in the Add a site box, but it doesn't support wildcards such as *.example.com. If a service uses several subdomains for pop-ups, for example a login page on one subdomain and a payment window on another, add each one separately, or allow pop-ups the first time you hit a block on each subdomain instead.

Faster Way: Allow a Trusted Site Before It's Ever Blocked

You can grant permission before Chrome blocks anything, which is useful for sites you already trust, like a bank's statement viewer or a scheduling tool that opens a pop-up window. This is the same underlying setting as the address-bar icon method after a block, just reached from a different starting point, so the exception behaves identically once it's saved.

1. Go to the site in Chrome.
2. Click the tune-shaped icon, or padlock on some pages, to the left of the web address.
3. Click Site settings.
4. Find Pop-ups and redirects and change it from Ask (default) to Allow.
5. Reload the page.

This method is worth the extra clicks for sites where you already know a pop-up matters: a scheduling tool that opens a calendar picker, a tax or banking portal that opens statements in a new window, or a work tool that relies on a pop-up during two-factor authentication. Waiting for Chrome to block the pop-up first, then allowing it, works too, but it means clicking through an extra blocked pop-up notice the first time.

Why Is the Pop-Up Still Not Showing After You Allowed It?

If you've allowed the site and the pop-up still doesn't appear, the block usually isn't coming from Chrome's built-in setting anymore.

• An extension, not Chrome, is blocking it. Ad blockers and redirect blockers run their own filtering rules and can stop a pop-up before Chrome's Pop-ups and redirects setting is even checked; see the next section for how to confirm this.
• You allowed the wrong domain. A payment or checkout pop-up sometimes opens from a different subdomain or third-party domain than the page you're on, so the exception you added doesn't cover it.
• The window opened behind your browser instead of in front of it. Some pop-ups, especially older ones, open as a pop-under and sit behind your current window rather than failing to open at all.
• A managed work or school profile, or Enhanced Safe Browsing, is enforcing the block and can't be overridden from Settings, because the organization managing the device has locked that permission centrally.

Before assuming Chrome is misbehaving, reproduce the problem in an Incognito window with extensions turned off, since Chrome disables most extensions in Incognito unless you enable them individually per extension. If the pop-up opens fine there, the cause is almost certainly an extension rather than Chrome's own Pop-ups and redirects setting.

Pop-up blocked icon

The small icon Chrome shows in the address bar the moment it blocks a pop-up on the current page. It disappears once you navigate away.

Pop-up

A new browser window or tab a site opens automatically, as opposed to one you open yourself by clicking a link.

How Do You Turn Off Chrome's Pop-Up Blocker Completely?

You can switch off the pop-up blocker for every site at once from the same settings page, though a single-site exception is almost always the better choice.

1. Go to chrome://settings/content/popups.
2. Switch the toggle at the top to Sites can send pop-ups and use redirects.
3. Reload any open tabs to apply the change.

This setting is really meant for short, deliberate testing, such as a developer checking how a page behaves without the blocker, or troubleshooting whether the blocker itself is the problem. For normal browsing, allowing individual sites keeps the protection in place everywhere you haven't explicitly trusted.

The toggle also applies per Chrome profile, not per Chrome window or per user account on a shared computer. If you sign into more than one Google account in Chrome, or share a computer with family members using separate profiles, check that you're changing the setting in the correct profile before assuming it didn't take effect.

Could an Extension Be Blocking the Pop-Up Instead of Chrome?

Ad blockers, redirect blockers, and privacy extensions can block a pop-up even after you've allowed it in Chrome's own settings, because they intercept the script before Chrome's built-in blocker ever runs.

Manifest V3, the extension platform Chrome now requires, limits how much an extension can rewrite a page compared to older versions. Most current ad and redirect blockers still catch pop-ups effectively under these rules, but a few older extensions that haven't been updated may behave inconsistently, which is another reason to test with the extension paused rather than assume it still works the way it used to.

How Do You Remove a Site From Chrome's Pop-Up Allow List?

Sites you've allowed stay allowed until you remove them, so it's worth checking the list occasionally.

Chrome doesn't limit how many sites you can add to either list, so it's easy to accumulate exceptions over months of clicking Allow without thinking about it. Reviewing the list occasionally, especially after using a shared or work computer, keeps old permissions from lingering longer than you intended.

1. Go to chrome://settings/content/popups.
2. Find the site under Allowed to send pop-ups and use redirects.
3. Click the three-dot menu next to it and choose Remove.

This puts the site back under Chrome's default Ask, or Block, behavior. Do the same for an entry under Blocked if you decide to allow it later.

Does This Also Work in Chrome on Android and iPhone?

Chrome's mobile pop-up setting works the same basic way on both platforms, but neither gives you the granular, per-site allow list that Chrome on a computer does.

Chrome's mobile apps have a pop-up setting, but it's simpler than the desktop version: Settings, then Site settings, then Pop-ups and redirects, is one switch for the whole browser with no per-site exception list. Extensions, including redirect and pop-up blockers, don't run on Chrome for Android or iPhone at all, so any fix that relies on an extension only applies to Chrome on a computer.

When Does an Extension Actually Help With Pop-Ups?

Chrome's built-in blocker only stops pop-up windows. It doesn't stop pop-up ads rendered inside a page, forced redirects to another site, or pop-under windows that open behind your browser. That's where a dedicated ad blocker or redirect blocker covers more ground than Chrome's default setting.

Before adding any of these, check what a pop-up or ad blocker extension actually asks for. Most need permission to read and change data on every site you visit, since that's how they intercept scripts before a pop-up or redirect fires, so pick one from a developer you trust and remove it later if you stop needing it.