Hello,
Since yesterday my browser (Safari 8.0.8) has been displaying a strange bar, below the bookmarks bar and above the tabs bar. It reads "Options: this bar is necessary for resizing windows. It should not be seen, used, or played with." See attached.
- Is this the symptom of an actual problem (as in my browser being compromised) ?
- How can i make it disappear ?
Thank you.
MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)
Do you have the Develop menu in your menu bar? If it is, go to Safari > Preferences and click on the Advanced icon.
At the bottom of the dialog uncheck Show Develop menu in the menu bar. Exit out and close Safari, then reopen. You should have lost the Options message.
I had the same thing, did the above and cleared the message. I then went back and opened the Develop menu again and have had no further issues with the Options message showing.
Hope this helps.
Do you have the Develop menu in your menu bar? If it is, go to Safari > Preferences and click on the Advanced icon.
At the bottom of the dialog uncheck Show Develop menu in the menu bar. Exit out and close Safari, then reopen. You should have lost the Options message.
I had the same thing, did the above and cleared the message. I then went back and opened the Develop menu again and have had no further issues with the Options message showing.
Hope this helps.
Tried the following :
- Unchecked 'Show develop' in advanced preferences,
- Quit Safari,
- Relaunched Safari, as instructed,
=> Bar still present.
- Forcequit Safari,
- Shift relaunched,
=> Bar still present.
- Rebooted,
- Relaunched Safari,
=> Bar still present.
Thanks for your tip, but it didn't work in my case.
Attached a pic of my menu bar without the Develop menu (my system is in French) :
This is starting to creep me out, actually.
Please change the system language to English temporarily. Relaunch Safari. Does the bar go away?
I had the same problem. I could fix it by disabling an extension (SPOI options 1.8.207). You might want to try to disable all extensions to see if it is one of them and if so disable them one by one to see which is the cause (under Safari->Preferences, choose tab "Extensions" {second from the right}, hit the big off switch in the top right, or click on each of the extensions and uncheck the enable box for each one, one by one). I didn't have to restart safari, the bar just disappeared.
(I hope I translate everything correctly, because my system is in Dutch)
Go to the 'View' menu and click 'Hide SPOI Options Resizer'. That should do the trick!
Allright !
It was indeed the SPOI options. I guess i should have thought trying to disable extensions by myself.
Thanks everyone !
safari displaying strange "window resize" bar
