Q: How to close Safari Cloud History and Safari Notifications?

What happens if you just quit Safari?

I figured it out.  Use Activity Manager (under Applications/Utilities) to locate the two processes and Force Quit them.  If you double click the process you get the option to force quit it.

It worked thank you with one exception in Mac ver 10.10 the program is called Activity Monitor not manager.

Had exactly the same problem.  Thanks, folks!