Clicking on search results does not follow link

Summary

The global quick search can sometimes fail to take you to the searched project when clicked on

Steps to reproduce

1. Enter something into the global quick search at the top right of the page that will cause it to return 0 results
2. Clear your entered search and instead search for an actual project
3. Clicking the project in the search result now does nothing

What is the current bug behavior?

The quick search does not take you to the searched project when a prior search returns 0 results. You have to reload the page to make the search work again.

What is the expected correct behavior?

The quick search takes me to the searched project

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This is the same as gitlab-foss#64120 (closed).

This comment says about that it's still happening: gitlab-foss#64120 (comment 254361466)