diff --git a/packages/dockview-core/src/__tests__/dockview/components/titlebar/tabsContainer.spec.ts b/packages/dockview-core/src/__tests__/dockview/components/titlebar/tabsContainer.spec.ts
index 11388bed3..2cd466626 100644
--- a/packages/dockview-core/src/__tests__/dockview/components/titlebar/tabsContainer.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/dockview-core/src/__tests__/dockview/components/titlebar/tabsContainer.spec.ts
@@ -894,137 +894,4 @@ describe('tabsContainer', () => {
             expect(mockVoidContainer.updateDragAndDropState).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
         });
     });
-
-    describe('tab overflow dropdown', () => {
-        test('close button clicks in dropdown should not trigger tab activation', () => {
-            const mockPopupService = {
-                openPopover: jest.fn(),
-                close: jest.fn(),
-            };
-
-            const accessor = fromPartial<DockviewComponent>({
-                onDidAddPanel: jest.fn(),
-                onDidRemovePanel: jest.fn(),
-                options: {},
-                onDidOptionsChange: jest.fn(),
-                popupService: mockPopupService,
-            });
-
-            const mockClose = jest.fn();
-            const mockSetActive = jest.fn();
-            const mockScrollIntoView = jest.fn();
-
-            const mockPanel = fromPartial<IDockviewPanel>({
-                id: 'test-panel',
-                api: {
-                    isActive: false,
-                    close: mockClose,
-                    setActive: mockSetActive,
-                },
-                view: {
-                    createTabRenderer: jest.fn().mockReturnValue({
-                        element: (() => {
-                            const tabElement = document.createElement('div');
-                            tabElement.className = 'dv-default-tab';
-                            
-                            const content = document.createElement('div');
-                            content.className = 'dv-default-tab-content';
-                            content.textContent = 'Test Tab';
-                            
-                            const action = document.createElement('div');
-                            action.className = 'dv-default-tab-action';
-                            const closeButton = document.createElement('div');
-                            action.appendChild(closeButton);
-                            
-                            tabElement.appendChild(content);
-                            tabElement.appendChild(action);
-                            
-                            return tabElement;
-                        })(),
-                    }),
-                },
-            });
-
-            const mockTab = {
-                panel: mockPanel,
-                element: {
-                    scrollIntoView: mockScrollIntoView,
-                },
-            };
-
-            const mockTabs = {
-                tabs: [mockTab],
-                onDrop: jest.fn(),
-                onTabDragStart: jest.fn(),
-                onWillShowOverlay: jest.fn(),
-                onOverflowTabsChange: jest.fn(),
-                size: 1,
-                panels: ['test-panel'],
-                isActive: jest.fn(),
-                indexOf: jest.fn(),
-                delete: jest.fn(),
-                setActivePanel: jest.fn(),
-                openPanel: jest.fn(),
-                showTabsOverflowControl: true,
-                updateDragAndDropState: jest.fn(),
-                element: document.createElement('div'),
-                dispose: jest.fn(),
-            };
-
-            const groupPanel = fromPartial<DockviewGroupPanel>({
-                id: 'testgroupid',
-                panels: [mockPanel],
-                model: fromPartial<DockviewGroupPanelModel>({}),
-            });
-
-            const cut = new TabsContainer(accessor, groupPanel);
-            (cut as any).tabs = mockTabs;
-
-            // Simulate overflow tabs
-            (cut as any).toggleDropdown({ tabs: ['test-panel'], reset: false });
-
-            // Find the dropdown trigger and click it
-            const dropdownTrigger = cut.element.querySelector('.dv-tabs-overflow-dropdown-root');
-            expect(dropdownTrigger).toBeTruthy();
-
-            // Simulate clicking the dropdown trigger
-            fireEvent.click(dropdownTrigger!);
-
-            // Verify popup was opened
-            expect(mockPopupService.openPopover).toHaveBeenCalled();
-
-            // Get the popover content
-            const popoverContent = mockPopupService.openPopover.mock.calls[0][0];
-            expect(popoverContent).toBeTruthy();
-
-            // Find the tab wrapper in the popover
-            const tabWrapper = popoverContent.querySelector('.dv-tab');
-            expect(tabWrapper).toBeTruthy();
-
-            // Find the close button in the popover
-            const closeButton = tabWrapper!.querySelector('.dv-default-tab-action');
-            expect(closeButton).toBeTruthy();
-
-            // Simulate clicking the close button
-            fireEvent.pointerDown(closeButton!, {
-                bubbles: true,
-            });
-
-            // Verify that tab activation methods were NOT called when clicking close button
-            expect(mockPopupService.close).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
-            expect(mockScrollIntoView).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
-            expect(mockSetActive).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
-
-            // Simulate clicking elsewhere in the tab (not the close button)
-            const tabContent = tabWrapper!.querySelector('.dv-default-tab-content');
-            fireEvent.pointerDown(tabContent!, {
-                bubbles: true,
-            });
-
-            // Verify that tab activation methods WERE called when clicking elsewhere
-            expect(mockPopupService.close).toHaveBeenCalled();
-            expect(mockScrollIntoView).toHaveBeenCalled();
-            expect(mockSetActive).toHaveBeenCalled();
-        });
-    });
 });
diff --git a/packages/dockview-core/src/dockview/components/titlebar/tabsContainer.ts b/packages/dockview-core/src/dockview/components/titlebar/tabsContainer.ts
index d803884a2..b96b13dd8 100644
--- a/packages/dockview-core/src/dockview/components/titlebar/tabsContainer.ts
+++ b/packages/dockview-core/src/dockview/components/titlebar/tabsContainer.ts
@@ -379,16 +379,7 @@ export class TabsContainer
                         !panelObject.api.isActive
                     );
 
-                    wrapper.addEventListener('pointerdown', (event) => {
-                        // Check if the click is on a close button or its children
-                        const target = event.target as HTMLElement;
-                        const isCloseButton = target.closest('.dv-default-tab-action') !== null;
-                        
-                        if (isCloseButton) {
-                            // Let the close button handle its own event
-                            return;
-                        }
-                        
+                    wrapper.addEventListener('pointerdown', () => {
                         this.accessor.popupService.close();
                         tab.element.scrollIntoView();
                         tab.panel.api.setActive();