Safari - viewing PDFs opens up blank grey windows

Can't find other info on this problem - when viewing PDFs in Safari, a blank, grey window is opened every time a new PDF is viewed. The grey windows can't be opened (by clicking on them or by switching tabs), but they show up in mission control view, which makes it really hard to find the actual windows I'm looking for! This is happening in Mavericks, but has been happening since Mountain Lion (or maybe even Snow Leopard). Help?
After clicking through multiple pages of a pdf, my mission control looks like this:
So annoying!

I had the same probelm.
1) You need to go onto your application list in finder, right click safari and choose "show package contents".
2) Double click contents folder
3) Open the folder named "recources"
4) in the search bar in finder (can be accesed by holding doen command and "f", type "plug in" and the select the option that should appear called "type: Plug in"
5) this should show you all the installed plug ins for safari.
6) to solve your issue, you should delete any plugin that says adobe or pdf. You may have to delete more than one.
7) fully close and restart safari and test.
Let me know how you get on, this should work for you.

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