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Do we agree that #8139 still relevant as it is a better UX to close the popover when clicking on a link?

Maybe another approach to fix this is to close the popover when the window scrolls?

In the gif above the repositioning does not look completely smooth at the end.

Do we agree that #8139 still relevant as it is a better UX to close the popover when clicking on a link?

Yes, still relevant IMO - we should have both :)

Maybe another approach to fix this is to close the popover when the window scrolls?

Yeah I spiked out trying to absolutely position the popover to the fixed nav (rather than portalled to the body) but sadly our popover positioning calculation isn't built for that 🥲 I'd rather just leave this as-is for simplicity. It's a bit of an edge case in any case, it doesn't need to be perfect, and a one-liner fix is fine IMO.