Enable and Disable Pop-Ups

Enable or disable pop-ups in your Selenium tests across different browsers

Enable pop-ups

You can enable pop-ups in Chrome, IE and Safari as follows:

Pop-ups are enabled by default (as the pop-up blocker is disabled, by default).

To enable the popups in IE, use the browserstack.ie.enablePopups capability.

caps.setCapability("browserstack.ie.enablePopups", "true");

caps["browserstack.ie.enablePopups"] = "true"

desiredCap.SetCapability("browserstack.ie.enablePopups", "true");

caps["browserstack.ie.enablePopups"] = "true"

var capabilities = {
  "browserstack.ie.enablePopups" : "true"
}

$caps["browserstack.ie.enablePopups"] = "true";

$caps->{"browserstack.ie.enablePopups"} = "true";

To enable the popups in Safari, use the browserstack.safari.enablePopups capability.

caps.setCapability("browserstack.safari.enablePopups", "true");

caps["browserstack.safari.enablePopups"] = "true"

desiredCap.SetCapability("browserstack.safari.enablePopups", "true");

caps["browserstack.safari.enablePopups"] = "true"

var capabilities = {
  "browserstack.safari.enablePopups" : "true"
}

$caps["browserstack.safari.enablePopups"] = "true";

$caps->{"browserstack.safari.enablePopups"} = "true";

Disable pop-ups

Note:

For all browsers except Chrome, the pop-ups are disabled by default.
If you have enabled them using the steps in the previous section, remove the code that disables the pop-up blocker to disable popups

Disable pop-ups in Chrome

For Chrome, pop-ups are enabled by default i.e. the pop-up blocker is disabled by default. To enable the pop-up blocker i.e. to block pop-ups, pass disable-popup-blocking argument under the excludeSwitches of a chromeOptions capability, as shown below:

ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.setExperimentalOption("excludeSwitches",Arrays.asList("disable-popup-blocking"));
caps.setCapability(ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY, options);

caps = Selenium::WebDriver::Remote::Capabilities.chrome
caps["chromeOptions"] = {}
caps["chromeOptions"]["excludeSwitches"] = ["disable-popup-blocking"]

using OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome;

ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.AddExcludedArgument("disable-popup-blocking");

desired_cap = {
 'browser': 'chrome',
 'browser_version': 'latest',
 'os': 'Windows',
 'os_version': '10',
 'build': 'Python Sample Build',
 'name': 'Pop-ups testing'
}
desired_cap["chromeOptions"] = {}
desired_cap["chromeOptions"]["excludeSwitches"] = ["disable-popup-blocking"]

driver = webdriver.Remote(
    command_executor='https://YOUR_USERNAME:YOUR_ACCESS_KEY@hub-cloud.browserstack.com/wd/hub',
    desired_capabilities=desired_cap
    )
# Rest of the code goes here

var capabilities = {
  "browserName" : "chrome",
  "chromeOptions" : {
    "excludeSwitches" : ["disable-popup-blocking"]
  }
}

$chromeoptions = array("excludeSwitches"=>array("disable-popup-blocking"));
$caps = array("platform"=>"WINDOWS", "browserName"=>"chrome", "chromeOptions"=>$chromeoptions);

$caps->{"chromeOptions"} = { "excludeSwitches" => ("disable-popup-blocking") };

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