diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/protected_branches/protected_branch_dropdown.js.es6 b/app/assets/javascripts/protected_branches/protected_branch_dropdown.js.es6
index e3f226e9a2a3b537e4d6ac16f8ee06b8db40aef7..9b551a1ed8c18b25df1d411ac0fbc882f1529a48 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/protected_branches/protected_branch_dropdown.js.es6
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/protected_branches/protected_branch_dropdown.js.es6
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ class ProtectedBranchDropdown {
   onClickCreateWildcard() {
     // Refresh the dropdown's data, which ends up calling `getProtectedBranches`
     this.$dropdown.data('glDropdown').remote.execute();
-    this.$dropdown.data('glDropdown').selectRowAtIndex(0);
+    this.$dropdown.data('glDropdown').selectRowAtIndex(gon.open_branches.length);
   }
 
   getProtectedBranches(term, callback) {
diff --git a/spec/features/projects/ref_switcher_spec.rb b/spec/features/projects/ref_switcher_spec.rb
index 472491188c9aecba02ee75bc021688f8a69fdd34..38fe2d928851667a0b80565b3f36efaa50684fe3 100644
--- a/spec/features/projects/ref_switcher_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/features/projects/ref_switcher_spec.rb
@@ -17,14 +17,15 @@ feature 'Ref switcher', feature: true, js: true do
 
     page.within '.project-refs-form' do
       input = find('input[type="search"]')
-      input.set 'expand'
+      input.set 'binary'
+      wait_for_ajax
 
       input.native.send_keys :down
       input.native.send_keys :down
       input.native.send_keys :enter
     end
 
-    expect(page).to have_title 'expand-collapse-files'
+    expect(page).to have_title 'binary-encoding'
   end
 
   it "user selects ref with special characters" do