diff --git a/addon-tab-preload.js b/addon-tab-preload.js
index b3d45e5a..8b6b14aa 100644
--- a/addon-tab-preload.js
+++ b/addon-tab-preload.js
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@
 // identity from the sender's file:// URL, so a page hosted anywhere else
 // gets nothing back from these handlers.
 const { contextBridge, ipcRenderer } = require("electron");
+// Clicks in an add-on tab close an overlay sidebar panel the same way clicks
+// in a web tab or Settings do (see home-preload / settings-preload). Push
+// mode is unaffected — main gates on sidebarPanelMode.
+window.addEventListener("pointerdown", () => { ipcRenderer.send("tab-pointerdown"); }, true);
 contextBridge.exposeInMainWorld("silentmode", {
   storage: {
     get: (key, fallback = null) => ipcRenderer.invoke("addon-storage-get", key, fallback),
diff --git a/settings-preload.js b/settings-preload.js
index 4aaead47..f575f1cd 100644
--- a/settings-preload.js
+++ b/settings-preload.js
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 const { contextBridge, ipcRenderer } = require("electron");
+// A click inside the Settings tab closes an open sidebar panel (overlay mode)
+// — same signal home-preload sends in a web tab. Without this, clicking the
+// Settings icon with an overlay panel open did nothing to the panel.
+window.addEventListener("pointerdown", () => { ipcRenderer.send("tab-pointerdown"); }, true);
 contextBridge.exposeInMainWorld("cfg", {
   get: () => ipcRenderer.invoke("settings-get"),
   set: (key, value) => ipcRenderer.invoke("settings-set", key, value),