# Likes pop up stays on page after you click an avatar

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/likes-pop-up-stays-on-page-after-you-click-an-avatar/407035>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Tags:** reactions, fixed\
**Created:** [July 7, 2026, 11:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/likes-pop-up-stays-on-page-after-you-click-an-avatar/407035 "2026-07-07T23:18:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![darkpixlz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/darkpixlz/32/549896_2.png) [@darkpixlz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/darkpixlz)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2026, 11:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/likes-pop-up-stays-on-page-after-you-click-an-avatar/407035/1 "2026-07-07T23:18:14Z")

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See video.

Reproduced on Meta, Firefox Nightly 154.0a1 (2026-07-03) linux. Does not happen if you are scrolled down on the page at all.

To reproduce:

- visit any topic
- click the likes (can not scroll at all on the page)
- click an avatar, navigate to their user page

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**Author:** ![matthewruzzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b782af/32.png) [@matthewruzzi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/matthewruzzi)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2026, 12:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/likes-pop-up-stays-on-page-after-you-click-an-avatar/407035/2 "2026-07-09T00:15:36Z")

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Same issue on Safari 26.5.2.

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**Author:** ![davidb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/davidb/32/554671_2.png) [@davidb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/davidb)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2026, 12:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/likes-pop-up-stays-on-page-after-you-click-an-avatar/407035/5 "2026-07-10T12:03:09Z")

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Added a fix for this here, should hopefully be merged soon: [FIX: close post reaction menu on route change - Pull Request #41619 - discourse/discourse - GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/41619)

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**Author:** ![davidb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/davidb/32/554671_2.png) [@davidb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/davidb)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2026, 1:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/likes-pop-up-stays-on-page-after-you-click-an-avatar/407035/6 "2026-07-10T13:49:41Z")

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This has now been merged 👍

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**Author:** ![matthewruzzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b782af/32.png) [@matthewruzzi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/matthewruzzi)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2026, 7:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/likes-pop-up-stays-on-page-after-you-click-an-avatar/407035/8 "2026-07-10T19:20:43Z")

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It looks like this is fixed now.

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2026, 7:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/likes-pop-up-stays-on-page-after-you-click-an-avatar/407035/9 "2026-07-12T19:40:44Z")

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