Safari pictures - gray screen

Upgraded to 10.9.5. Now, when I click to enlarge a picture, e.g. picture of a room on a travel website, a picture on a newspaper website, the whole Safari screen turns dark, sen-transparent gray. I have to click the back button to get out of it. I've rebooted, reset Safari, but this has now been going on for several days. I would greatly appreciate any help.

From your Safari menu bar click Safari > Preferences then select the Privacy tab.
Click:   Remove All Website Data
Then delete the cache.
Open a Finder window. From the Finder menu bar click Go > Go to Folder
Type or copy paste the following
~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Cache.db
Click Go then move the Cache.db file to the Trash.
Quit and relaunch Safari to test.
If that didn't help, troubleshoot Safari extensions.
From the Safari menu bar click Safari > Preferences then select the Extensions tab. Turn that OFF, quit and relaunch Safari to test.
If that helped, turn one extension on then quit and relaunch Safari to test until you find the incompatible extension then click uninstall.

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