Command pallete search - why so difficult?

Jenkins setup: 2.492.2

The new command pallete search - How do I get it to list a page of links that match the search term. I used to be able to do this. Like I could put in branchX and hit return and all items that have branchX in it would come up on a webpage with the links to them. This used to work before we upgraded to the command pallete.
But now it will not - branchX return only returns the FIRST item in the drop down list that returns.

This just seems like a very basic, simple search task that should always work. Is there something I’m missing?