Help with "https://r.twimg.com/jot"

Hi Matt,

Thanks for the suggestion. Yeah, my homepage is on Google.ca. When I open safari, it goes to my homepage with no problem. However, for no reason, while I'm browsing, a new tab suddenly opens with this link. The page is blank but the r.twimg.com/jot is in the address bar. Even if I'm on another desktop entirely, my screen will suddenly slide over to the desktop with safari on it and open this tab. I have no idea what it is, but again, I'm not exactly a computer genius. I have had no other problems with my mac so it doesn't seem to be affecting anything other then being annoying. I ran disk utility and all that as well to see if that would help and everything checked out fine.

don't know if this helps, but the actual words on the tab that is opened by this link reads: "jot 1x1 pixels". I really think this is some sort of twitter thing which is weird because I have never used twitter at all from this computer (though my account was set up for some time, I just never used it)

Also, after much playing around. I think I found something that seems to trigger it. Not sure if this coincidence but if I slide over to dashboard and wait a second or two, then it always slides over to safari again and opens this tab. Could this be some to do with a widget? I don't have a twitter widget and just the basic ones (calculator, etc....) with a couple animated GIFS from the internet.

Message was edited by: vegasreign

Ok. I guess I should have just stuck with experimenting. After days and days of trying things, it was quite simple. I simply deleted some of the widgets from my dashboard. One of them was causing it. I believe it was one of the animated GIFs. Now that they are gone, the problem is solved!! I hope this helps anybody else!!

You only have a second to delete them each as it will slide over to safari very quickly. You need to hold down the option button while the cursor is hovering over a widget, and quickly click on X. The screen will likely slide over to safari. Just slide back, and repeat, until you get the right one and the problem stops

lol. no problem!! glad it helped. it took me forever to figure that and I was going crazy and it turned out to be such a simple thing!!

Cheers,