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It looks like at some point GitHub added a click area in the blank part of the header, right in the middle, that triggers the search opening.
It is pretty annoying to me but I wanted to open a discussion first to see if anyone else is bothered by it before doing more.
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posted by Stanzilla almost 4 years ago This does not happen to me in chrome on windows
Same on Safari, nothing happens when clicking outside
That is weird, I can repro without any browser extensions even on Chrome 92.0.4515.51. I will test with more browsers.
I managed to repro consistently in a fresh Chrome 91 profile (having login to github) in the following way:
rightclicking on the middle of the blank area of the header, then immediately leftclicking
(the mouse has to be in a specific vertical position, otherwise it doesn't occur)
and finally pressing Esc, and repeat:
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