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Five ordered steps that take a browser from an open pop-up setting to a verified blocked state, plus the two failure modes that send people back to the settings panel.
Open the browser's main menu and choose Settings. On desktop builds the entry sits at the bottom of the menu; on mobile builds it is usually behind a three-dot icon. The whole procedure takes about two minutes once you are in the panel.
Find the privacy or content-settings section. Chrome labels it Privacy and security, Firefox labels it Privacy & Security, Edge and Safari group it under their site-data panels. If the panel has a search box, type pop-up and jump straight to the control.
Switch pop-ups to blocked. The control is a toggle or a dropdown with at least two states: blocked and allowed. Set it to blocked and leave the main switch on from this point forward.
On narrow screens, swipe or scroll the plate sideways.
Review the allow-list for trusted sites. Every browser keeps a separate list of sites allowed to open windows; remove entries you do not recognize, because an allow-list entry persists until it is removed by hand.
Verify with a test page that attempts to open a window from a script. A working blocker suppresses the window and often shows a small icon in the address bar; clicking that icon shows which site requested it.
Two failure modes account for most returns to this panel. First, pop-ups still open after the switch — that usually means a site on the allow-list, not a broken setting. Second, a legitimate download or sign-in window is wrongly blocked — allow that single site rather than turning the main switch off.
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