Hello, I have a white ghost box appearing over my safari web search window on my itouch. I believe it was from a pop up window that never spawned its own safari page. Any suggestions on getting rid of it??? Thanks

To make Google your home page using a Mac Computer and Safari as your web browser proceed as follows:



Open an instance of Safari

Click Safari at the top of the page and select preferences

You will see a Window appear as show below:







Open the General Tab and set your Preferences as you desire including your HomePage by entering the address or having your preferred Web page open and clicking the Set to Current Page button below the HomePage option.

Close the Safari Preference box and your home page should be the one set whenever you open an instance of Safari.

Use Caution. Pop-ups can appear for various reasons and they may not be legitimate.

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Your homepage is the page that normally appears when you first open Safari.

1. Open Safari if it is not already open.
2. Choose Safari > Preferences, and then click General.
3. Do one of the following:
   • To use the page in the current Safari window or tab, click "Set to Current Page."
   • To use another page, type its address in the Homepage field.
   • To use a blank page, delete the contents of the Homepage field so that the field is blank.
4. If you also want the homepage to appear whenever you open a new Safari window, choose Homepage from the "New windows open with" pop-up menu.

Good Luck!

Change the Home Page:

1. Open Safari if it is not already open.
2. Choose Safari > Preferences, and then click General.
3. Do one of the following:
   • To use the page in the current Safari window or tab, click "Set to Current Page."
   • To use another page, type its address in the Homepage field.
   • To use a blank page, delete the contents of the Homepage field so that the field is blank.
4. If you also want the homepage to appear whenever you open a new Safari window, choose Homepage from the "New windows open with" pop-up menu

5. Then choose Google as your default search engine.

Try zooming your the Safari window (click the green button at the top left of the window's frame) or try putting Safari into full-screen mode (click arrow thingy at top right of window frame) to see if the text box reappears. You can switch in and out of full-screen mode by typing control-command-F.

If this doesn't do the trick, navigate to a SPECIFIC page in Google search (start at www.google.com), then open Safari Preferences, click the General tab, and click the "Set to current page" button.

Block pop-ups on webpages

1. Open Safari if it is not already open.
   
2. Choose Safari > Preferences, and then click Security.
   
3. Turn on "Block pop-up windows."
   

Blocking pop-up windows stops only those windows that appear when you open or close a page. It does not block pop-up windows that open when you click a link.

If you block pop-up windows, you might miss important information for a webpage. For example, a website that provides services to you might use a pop-up window to request your user name.

Block unnecessary webpage content

1. Open Safari if it is not already open.
   
2. Choose Safari > Preferences, and then click Security.
   
3. In the "Web content" section, select or deselect types of content you want to block or enable. For an explanation of the options, click the Help button (looks like a question mark).

Source: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11946?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
Hope that helps!

Hello,

Try opening facebook in a different browser (eg. Internet Explorer or Chrome).

or do this one:

Delete the cookies by going to Safari > Preferences > Privacy Tab > Details

In the search field in the top right corner of that window, type in facebook. Click REMOVE ALL > Done

Now, go to the safari menu bar. Click safari > empty cache

Go back to the menu bar again. Click safari > Reset Safari. Select the top 5 boxes. Click Reset.

Restart your MAC and check when on.


Let me know if it works or not. If you need more help, please let me know.

Carlo

you should have an app called SAFARI
thats your itouch web browser
make sure you with in wifi distance
your on the web if you see the littlte circle going around
once on safari its alot like any other browser

I went to Settings, Safari and turned popup blockers off, cleared the history and when I went back into Safari it was ok! I'm not sure if I should go back and turn popup blockers on now.