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Configure Pop-Up Blockers

The most current versions of Internet Explorer, Netscape and Firefox contain built in pop-up blockers. You will need to configure your browser to allow pop-ups from blackboard.purdue.edu since many features in Blackboard Vista use pop-ups. To make sure you have pop-ups allowed, follow the steps at the bottom of the page to manually check your pop-up settings.

Be aware there are other, pop-up blockers from third party vendors and Internet Service Providers. They are too numerous to document all of them but Vista provides a brief discussion of them.

Firefox

In Firefox when you log into Vista, you may see an information bar which is a pale yellow bar just above the web page content and below the toolbars. This bar may warn you that a pop-up has been blocked.

Image of Firefox info bar

Click on this bar and choose Allow popups for blackboard.purdue.edu to configure Firefox to allow pop-ups

Allow popups for ecourses.purdue.edu

To check your pop-up settings manually:

  1. Open Firefox and click Tools > Options.
  2. Click the Web Features icon to the left. Next to Block Popup Windows, click the Allowed Sites button.
  3. Make sure blackboard.purdue.edu is in the allowed sites list. If it is not:
  4. Enter blackboard.purdue.edu in the Address of web site box.
  5. Click the Allow button.
  6. Click OK and then OK to go back to the Firefox main window.