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can't get out of pop up! HELP!!

hjkapl

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I'm in a site that has a pop up requesting a password. I don't have it and want to get out of it. I hit 'cancel' but the pop up immediately pops up, again, not allowing me to shrink and dispose of the site. I even tried hitting 'ok' instead of 'cancel' but the same thing happens....over and over and over, again.

I tried powering down and then restarting but as soon as I go to the Safari browser, the same website/pop up is there insisting that I fill out the form.

How the heck can I get out of this pop up and get rid of the website??

Many thanks.
 

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One way I can think of to close all the tabs would be to go to settings then safari and turn on private browsing which will give you a pop up asking if you want to keep all or close all tabs - select close all then just turn private browsing off again...
 
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.... turn on private browsing ...

Thanks for the suggestion but...I hate to be so useless....I went to settings and chose Safari, as per your suggestion. However, I cannot see any place to turn on private browsing!

My choices are 'autofill', 'bookmarks bar', 'fraud warning', 'javascript', 'block pop-ups (that's already 'on')', 'accept cookies' and 'databases'. There's also a 'clear history', 'clear cookies' and 'clear cache'.

Where can I find the private browsing option? Any other suggestions?

Once, again, many thanks for whatever help you can offer.
 
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OMG...I took the letter of your suggestion and just tried turning off my WiFi. Once I did and clicked on Safari, I got the page where I could delete the site!

Thanks so much for your help...without your suggestion, I never would have thought of trying this.

Success ;-).
 

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Good news, glad I could kind of help!

Are you on iOS 5+ ? If not that may be why you didn't have the private browsing toggle...?
 
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Actually, I'm on 4.2.1! Are you suggesting I upgrade<g>?
 

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If you are not jailbroken then I definitely would as iOS 5 bought in several new features and I'm sure fixed a few bugs too - I'm running iOS 5.1 on my iPad 1 and have no complaints :)
 

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