Safari logo stuck on screen after downloading

Safari/Preferences/Advanced - enable the Develop menu, then go there and Empty Caches. Quit/reopen Safari and test. Then try Safari/History/Show History and delete all history items. Quit/reopen Safari and test. You can also try try Safari/Clear History…. The down side is it clears all cookies. Doing this may cause some sites to no longer recognize your computer as one that has visited the web site. Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Cache.db and move it to the trash.

Go to Safari Preferences/Extensions and turn all extensions off. Test. If okay, turn the extensions on one by one until you figure out what extension is causing the problem.

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If you navigate to a downloadable file with Safari (for example, by clicking a download link), Mac OS X's download validation will warn you about unsafe file types, and you should cancel if you have any doubts about the file. If you download a file by Command-clicking or selecting Download Linked File from a contextual menu, it will not be inspected by Mac OS X's download validation and it will not be automatically opened. You should inspect the downloaded file using the Finder as described above. If you were expecting a document and Finder indicates that it is an application, do not open that file. Instead, delete it immediately.

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I have had this issue for about 2 weeks. It may have started to the same time I downloaded High Sierra, but not positive. This morning I downloaded a .docx file from Dropbox online and it occurred again. However, this time the logo also appears on the Word file as well.

Apple, please help!

tmjen555

See if this helps.

After a download, a compass/safari icon remains on the screen

There must be a simpler answer for this problem than that from Eric Root, who basically says, "Try everything under the sun." Can anyone help?

Try going to System Preferences/General and near the bottom, uncheck the Handoff option.

Unfortunately, I tried that, but it didn't help.