Greyed out Safari homepage

My father has IMac he was clearing his browsing history and now the Safari homepage is greyed out with a thin white line below the search box? Any idea what this might be?

iMac 21.5″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Jun 10, 2022 11:50 PM

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hunterZap

Level 4

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Jun 11, 2022 12:07 AM in response to imogen173

May be App crash ,

Here --> If Safari on Mac doesn't open a webpage or isn’t working as expected

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