diff --git a/frontend/src/shared/hooks/useLastDashboardId.ts b/frontend/src/shared/hooks/useLastDashboardId.ts
index da83eb63..287129b9 100644
--- a/frontend/src/shared/hooks/useLastDashboardId.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/shared/hooks/useLastDashboardId.ts
@@ -15,17 +15,20 @@ export function useLastDashboardId(): [string | null, (id: string | null) => voi
     }
   });
 
-  // Watch URL; update sticky id on /dashboard/:id. Do NOT clear when URL stops matching.
+  // The id from the CURRENT url, read synchronously in render: a dashboard switch must update dashboardId on the SAME render the route changes. Deferring it to the effect below left a one-frame window where the OLD dashboard was still the active id, so a kept-alive browser card from it flashed onto the new dashboard before parking off-screen (the cross-dashboard bleed).
+  const routeId = location.pathname.match(/^\/dashboard\/([^/]+)/)?.[1] ?? null;
+  const effectiveId = routeId ?? lastId;
+
+  // Persist the route id so it stays sticky when the url stops matching a dashboard (settings etc.). Do NOT clear when it stops matching.
   useEffect(() => {
-    const match = location.pathname.match(/^\/dashboard\/([^/]+)/);
-    if (match && match[1] && match[1] !== lastId) {
-      setLastIdState(match[1]);
+    if (routeId && routeId !== lastId) {
+      setLastIdState(routeId);
       try {
-        localStorage.setItem(STORAGE_KEY, match[1]);
+        localStorage.setItem(STORAGE_KEY, routeId);
       } catch {}
-      setLastDashboardId(match[1]);
+      setLastDashboardId(routeId);
     }
-  }, [location.pathname, lastId]);
+  }, [routeId, lastId]);
 
   const setLastId = useCallback((id: string | null) => {
     setLastIdState(id);
@@ -39,5 +42,5 @@ export function useLastDashboardId(): [string | null, (id: string | null) => voi
     setLastDashboardId(id);
   }, []);
 
-  return [lastId, setLastId];
+  return [effectiveId, setLastId];
 }