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Can't close invisible tab

Safari 9.1 seems to maintain an invisible tab associated with a particular web page. When I cycle between tabs with ⇧⌘], it cycles through my visible tabs and then before cycling back to the first one, it displays a web page that I don't want. It's like I have that page open in an invisible tab. If I File > Close Tab, the page appears to close and I am taken to the next tab, but ⇧⌘] brings me back to that web page. If I Quit and relaunch Safari, it starts on my home page, but ⇧⌘] brings up this other page. There is never a tab shown for this page, but if I do View > Show All Tabs, the page is shown.


I've looked through Preferences in case this page's URL somehow got saved, but no joy. How do I get rid of it?


FWIW, the other page is on my local drive and is opened with the "file:" scheme. It is my local copy of a particular page of a remote web site I maintain. I edit the file locally and use Safari to verify the results before I FTP the page to the web site.

MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.4)

Posted on Apr 2, 2016 5:21 AM

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Apr 2, 2016 5:25 PM in response to Ken Nellis

Well, I was able to get rid of it, but it's still a mystery as to why it occurred in the first place.

When I returned to View > Show All Tabs, I noticed an X appear in the upper left corner of the page thumbnail when I hovered the mouse over it, and I clicked the X and it seems to have closed the page for once and for all.

Would still be interested to learn how this happened in the first place.

Can't close invisible tab

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