I move this to bug. Even if it’s a small one and kind of an edge case, it still prevents a regular action from working, even if it can easily be circumvented.
i’ve replicated this on desktop. the text has to be selected (highlighted).
i actually noticed this a while back on meta but didn’t think anything of it at the time. the search field retains your last search and often the text is selected by default. if you click the search icon instead of the avatar by mistake, it’s noticeable when you have previous search there that you have to close it before opening the avatar menu.
heh i was just going to try safari. yes the bug seems to be windows desktop chrome only. can’t replicate in safari or chrome on iOS desktop or mobile. seems to be a strictly windows desktop chrome thing.
There’s a long-ish explanation in the PR description, the short version is that we were previously skipping the clickOutside event for the search menu when there was text selected. But we auto-select the search menu input text, so this switches to a different technique.