Are you facing issues with a website on macOS because your browser is blocking popups for it? Luckily, you can disable the popup blocker in major browsers like Safari, Chrome, and Firefox on your machine.

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Mail is likely the default email app on your Mac, but just in case you have others downloaded, you can set the default reader. Here's how: Launch Mail from your dock or the Finder. Click Mail in the menu bar at the top of the screen. Click Preferences. Click the dropdown next to Default Mail Reader. Click the app you'd like to set as the default. In order to successfully download third-party apps, you'll need to enable Unknown sources: Open up Settings on your S5 (through the app drawer or notification shade) Slide down to the System section; Tap on Security; Check the box next to Unknown sources.

Once the blockers are disabled, any sites you open in these browsers will be allowed to launch popup windows. You also have the option to enable popups just for certain sites on your Mac.

Which Type of Popup Are We Talking About?

A popup is a small window that either opens automatically when you are on a website or opens when you click a link on the site. Shopping sites, discount sites, and such other sites often launch popup windows to grab your attention.

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You shouldn’t confuse these website popups with the tiny notifications that you see on your Mac. Those notifications are generated by your system or your installed apps. They have nothing to do with the popups you see in your browsers.

How to Allow Popups in Safari on Mac

It’s easy to disable the popup blocker in Safari. All you have to do is head into a settings menu and change an option there to turn off the popup blocker. Where this option is located depends on the version of Safari you're using.

Related: Essential Safari Tips and Tricks for Mac Users

You can also use the Terminal as well to enable and disable the popup blocker in Safari.

Allow Popups in Safari 12 or Later

Safari 12 and later versions let you disable the popup blocker for all websites or certain websites that you choose in the browser.

You can access the popup blocker in Safari 12 and up as follows:

1. Launch Safari, click the Safari menu at the top, and select Preferences.
2. Go to the Websites tab.
3. Select Pop-up Windows on the left and choose Allow from the dropdown menu on the right.
4. If you want, you can specify a list of sites that you want to block popups for.

Allow Popups in Safari 11 or Earlier

Safari 11 and earlier versions have a tick box letting you enable and disable the popup blocker with a single click.

Here’s how you find that box:

1. Open Safari, click the Safari menu at the top, and select Preferences.
2. Head to the Security tab.
3. Untick the box that says Block pop-up windows.

Allow Popups in Safari Using the Terminal

Those of you who prefer the Terminal would be glad to know there’s a Terminal command to enable and disable popups in Safari on your Mac.

Here’s how you use that command:

1. Launch the Terminal.
2. Type the following command to disable the popup blocker in Safari.
3. Use this command to enable the popup blocker in Safari.

How to Unblock Popups in Chrome on Mac

If you use Chrome as your default browser, unblocking popups is as easy as heading into the settings menu for Chrome and toggling an option off.

Here’s how you do that:

1. Click the three-dots at the top-right corner in Chrome and select Settings.
2. Click Privacy and security on the left and select Site settings from the right pane.
3. Scroll all the way down and click Pop-ups and redirects.
4. Click the toggle next to Blocked (recommended) to disable Chrome's popup blocker. The toggle should now read Allowed.

How to Turn Off the Popup Blocker in Firefox on Mac

Firefox has pretty much the same approach to disabling the popup blocker as Google Chrome. You head into settings, untick an option, and you're all set.

Here’s how:

1. Open Firefox, click the three horizontal lines at the top-right corner, and select Preferences.
2. Click Privacy & Security on the left.
3. Scroll down to the Permissions section. Then, untick the Block pop-up windows option.
4. If you want to allow popups from certain sites while keeping all other sites blocked, click Exceptions and add your sites to the whitelist.

Allowing Those Tiny Popup Windows on Your Mac

Some sites require that you enable popups on your machine in order for those sites to work. You can do that pretty easily by allowing popups in various browsers for macOS, as we've seen here.

Popups aren't the only annoyance on the web. Some websites nowadays use notifications to grab your attention. If you want to stop this, you can disable site notifications in most web browsers.

Applicable Products

• Citrix Workspace App
• Citrix Receiver

Symptoms or Error

Solution

In general, switching between applications/windows within a Citrix Desktop Session will work without a need to alter any settings on an endpoint with the newer releases of Citrix Workspace App.
Please review the below sections for additional information:

1. With the latest releases of Workspace App for Windows, no changes on the endpoint are required. Hitting 'Alt+Tab' on the endpoint within a windowed Citrix Desktop session.
2. If the expected behavior of switching between applications/windows within a Citrix Desktop Session is not occurring, please follow these steps:

On macOS there are no required settings that need to be changed to allow this behavior. Hit the following keys on a Mac to switch between applications/windows within a Citrix Desktop Session:

1. Hit the following keys: 'Command + Tab'.

On Linux there are no required settings that need to be changed to allow this behavior.
If the expected behavior of switching between applications/windows within a Citrix Desktop Session is not occurring, please follow these steps:

1. Open terminal and navigate to the following location:
   • /etc/icaclient/config/All_Regions.ini
2. Edit the .ini file with your preferred editor
   • ex. nano All_Regions.ini
3. Find the following line within the file and update it to 'Remote' after the equal sign:
   • TransparentKeyPassthrough =Remote
4. Exit Citrix Workspace App or Citrix Receiver and launch it again

On ChromeOS there are two ways of switching between applications/windows within a Citrix Desktop Session, see below:

1. Go into full screen mode on your Citrix Desktop Session:
   • Proceed to switch between applications/windows using 'Alt+Tab'
2. Within a windowed session try the following key combination to:
   • Proceed to switch between applications/windows using 'Alt+PageUp'

Problem Cause

Additional Resources

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Understanding Keyboard Input To Virtual Desktops
By default, when you use a virtual desktop all key presses are directed to it (not the local computer) with the following exceptions:

• Windows logo key+L is directed to the local computer.
• CTRL+ALT+DELETE is directed to the local computer except in some cases if you use the Citrix Desktop Lock.
• Key presses that activate StickyKeys, FilterKeys, and ToggleKeys (Microsoft accessibility features) are normally directed to the local computer.
• As an accessibility feature of the Desktop Viewer, pressing CTRL+ALT+BREAK displays the Desktop Viewer toolbar buttons in a pop-up window.
• Windows key combinations (for example, CTRL+ESC and ALT+TAB) are directed according to the settings that your help desk has selected.

Note: By default, if the Desktop Viewer is maximized, ALT+TAB switches focus between windows inside the session. If the Desktop Viewer is displayed in a window, ALT+TAB switches focus between windows outside the session.
Hotkey sequences are key combinations designed by Citrix. For example, the CTRL+F1 sequence reproduces CTRL+ALT+DELETE, and SHIFT+F2 switches applications between full-screen and windowed mode. You can use hotkey sequences with virtual desktops in many, but not all, setups. For example, they work with your hosted applications.

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