fix: make saveState() a read-modify-write merge instead of a full-blob overwrite (closes #304)

Every extension page (the toolbar popup, a dApp approval window, the
background's backgroundRefresh()) holds its own in-memory `state`, loaded
once, and showView() saves on every navigation. saveState() wrote the
entire state blob, so any second page that saved overwrote whatever
another page had written since -- a whole wallet, name, addresses and
encrypted secret included, with no attacker and no unusual input.

saveState() now re-reads storage, diffs the persisted fields against a
deep-cloned baseline snapshot taken at this page's last
loadState()/saveState(), and writes only the fields that differ. Every
other field is carried forward from storage in its loaded-and-normalized
shape (normalizePersisted(), shared with loadState()), so a legacy or
malformed record a load has always self-healed in memory keeps getting
written back even on a save that touched something unrelated.
showView() fires saveState() without awaiting it, so two saves from the
SAME page can be in flight at once; a FIFO queue serializes them.

Deliberately not done, a documented deviation from the plan on the
issue: the live `state` of a field this page does not own is not
rehydrated from what another page wrote, only the persisted record is.
Adopting a concurrently-written value into `state` reintroduced the same
clobber one page later, under the fire-and-forget saveState() calling
convention every view uses -- caught red by tests/txStatus.test.js.
Two writers of the same field still resolve last-writer-wins, documented
at the merge point.

tests/stateMerge.test.js covers both required cases against the real
state.js and showView(): a save from a page loaded before a wallet was
added elsewhere, and the approval-window reproduction from the issue.
Both were confirmed failing against the prior full-blob write before
this fix landed.

TODO.md

@@ -44,6 +44,32 @@ but the review is broader than any of them.
 
 # Completed Steps
 
+- 2026-08-20: A second extension page can no longer silently delete a wallet
+  ([#304](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/AutistMask/issues/304)). `saveState()` wrote
+  the entire state blob, and every extension page — the toolbar popup, a dApp
+  approval window, `backgroundRefresh()` — holds its own in-memory `state`,
+  loaded once, with `showView()` saving on every navigation; a second page that
+  saved after a first had written something new overwrote it, no attacker or
+  unusual input required. `saveState()` is now a read-modify-write: it re-reads
+  storage, diffs the persisted fields against a deep-cloned `baseline` snapshot
+  taken at the last `loadState()`/`saveState()` on that page, and writes only
+  the fields that actually changed — everything else is carried forward from
+  storage in its loaded-and-normalized shape (`normalizePersisted()`, shared
+  with `loadState()`), so a legacy or malformed record a load has always
+  self-healed in memory keeps getting written back even on a save that touched
+  something else entirely. `showView()` fires `saveState()` on every navigation
+  without awaiting it, so two saves from the same page can be in flight at once;
+  a FIFO queue serializes them rather than letting a slow one finish after a
+  later one and re-derive a stale answer. Deliberately not done: the live
+  `state` of a field this page does not own is not rehydrated from what another
+  page wrote, only the persisted record is — adopting a concurrently-written
+  value into `state` reintroduced the same clobber one page later, caught by
+  `tests/txStatus.test.js` red. Two writers of the same field still resolve
+  last-writer-wins, documented at the merge point. `tests/stateMerge.test.js`
+  covers the two-page save and the approval-window reproduction from the issue —
+  add a wallet in one page, force a save from a second page loaded before it,
+  both wallets survive — each demonstrated failing against the unfixed full-blob
+  write.
 - 2026-08-20: A forgotten password no longer wedges the wallet
   ([#312](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/AutistMask/issues/312)). Deleting a wallet
   was password-gated and importing its recovery phrase again was refused as a

src/shared/state.js

@@ -88,135 +88,239 @@ function currentNetwork() {
     return networkById(state.networkId);
 }
 
-async function saveState() {
+// Every field written to and read from the single "autistmask" storage key.
-    const persisted = {
+// hasWallet is deliberately excluded from the diffing/merge logic below —
-        hasWallet: state.hasWallet,
+// like loadState() does, it is always derived from `wallets`, never carried
-        wallets: state.wallets,
+// as an independent value.
-        trackedTokens: state.trackedTokens,
+const PERSISTED_FIELDS = Object.keys(DEFAULT_STATE)
-        networkId: state.networkId,
+    .filter((key) => key !== "hasWallet")
-        rpcUrl: state.rpcUrl,
+    .concat([
-        blockscoutUrl: state.blockscoutUrl,
+        "currentView",
-        networkEndpoints: state.networkEndpoints,
+        "selectedWallet",
-        lastBalanceRefresh: state.lastBalanceRefresh,
+        "selectedAddress",
-        activeAddress: state.activeAddress,
+        "selectedToken",
-        allowedSites: state.allowedSites,
+        "viewData",
-        deniedSites: state.deniedSites,
+        "viewStack",
-        rememberSiteChoice: state.rememberSiteChoice,
+    ]);
-        showZeroBalanceTokens: state.showZeroBalanceTokens,
+
-        hideSpoofedSymbols: state.hideSpoofedSymbols,
+// Turn a raw stored (or missing) record into the full, defaulted shape
-        hideLowHolderTokens: state.hideLowHolderTokens,
+// loadState() used to assign directly onto `state`. Pulled out as a pure
-        hideFraudContracts: state.hideFraudContracts,
+// function so saveState() can apply it too: the fields THIS page did not
-        hideDustTransactions: state.hideDustTransactions,
+// change still have to come from storage in their loaded-and-normalized
-        dustThresholdGwei: state.dustThresholdGwei,
+// form, not as the raw bytes another page (or an old release) left there —
-        utcTimestamps: state.utcTimestamps,
+// otherwise a legacy shape a load has always self-healed in memory (a
-        fraudContracts: state.fraudContracts,
+// missing networkEndpoints map, an out-of-range flag) is dropped right back
-        tokenHolderCache: state.tokenHolderCache,
+// into storage unfixed every time the page that DID normalize it saves
-        theme: state.theme,
+// something unrelated, because that field's value never "changed" for that
-        debugMode: state.debugMode,
+// page to notice.
-        currentView: state.currentView,
+function normalizePersisted(saved) {
-        selectedWallet: state.selectedWallet,
+    saved = saved || {};
-        selectedAddress: state.selectedAddress,
+    const out = {};
-        selectedToken: state.selectedToken,
+    out.wallets = saved.wallets || [];
-        viewData: state.viewData,
+    // Derived, never trusted verbatim off storage — see loadState().
-        viewStack: state.viewStack,
+    out.hasWallet = out.wallets.length > 0;
-    };
+    out.trackedTokens = saved.trackedTokens || [];
-    await storageSet({ autistmask: persisted });
+    out.networkId = saved.networkId || DEFAULT_STATE.networkId;
+    out.rpcUrl = saved.rpcUrl || DEFAULT_STATE.rpcUrl;
+    out.blockscoutUrl = saved.blockscoutUrl || DEFAULT_STATE.blockscoutUrl;
+    // An actual object is required, not merely a truthy non-array: the code
+    // below and onChainSwitch() index and ASSIGN INTO this value, and
+    // assigning a property to a string or a number is a silent no-op in
+    // sloppy mode. Copied rather than referenced, nested pairs included, so
+    // normalizing never mutates the object a caller handed in.
+    const rawEndpoints =
+        typeof saved.networkEndpoints === "object" &&
+        saved.networkEndpoints !== null &&
+        !Array.isArray(saved.networkEndpoints)
+            ? saved.networkEndpoints
+            : {};
+    out.networkEndpoints = {};
+    for (const netId of Object.keys(rawEndpoints)) {
+        out.networkEndpoints[netId] = { ...rawEndpoints[netId] };
+    }
+    // A profile written before this map existed carries exactly one pair of
+    // endpoints, belonging to whatever network it was last on. Adopt it as
+    // that network's remembered pair, so a custom endpoint set on the old
+    // build is not lost by the first switch away and back.
+    if (!out.networkEndpoints[out.networkId]) {
+        out.networkEndpoints[out.networkId] = {
+            rpcUrl: out.rpcUrl,
+            blockscoutUrl: out.blockscoutUrl,
+        };
+    }
+    out.lastBalanceRefresh = saved.lastBalanceRefresh || 0;
+    out.activeAddress = saved.activeAddress || null;
+    out.allowedSites =
+        saved.allowedSites && !Array.isArray(saved.allowedSites)
+            ? saved.allowedSites
+            : {};
+    out.deniedSites =
+        saved.deniedSites && !Array.isArray(saved.deniedSites)
+            ? saved.deniedSites
+            : {};
+    out.rememberSiteChoice =
+        saved.rememberSiteChoice !== undefined
+            ? saved.rememberSiteChoice
+            : true;
+    out.showZeroBalanceTokens =
+        saved.showZeroBalanceTokens !== undefined
+            ? saved.showZeroBalanceTokens
+            : true;
+    // A profile written before this setting existed has no key for it. It
+    // is a safety filter, so absent must load as on, not as undefined.
+    out.hideSpoofedSymbols =
+        saved.hideSpoofedSymbols !== undefined
+            ? saved.hideSpoofedSymbols
+            : true;
+    out.hideLowHolderTokens =
+        saved.hideLowHolderTokens !== undefined
+            ? saved.hideLowHolderTokens
+            : true;
+    out.hideFraudContracts =
+        saved.hideFraudContracts !== undefined
+            ? saved.hideFraudContracts
+            : true;
+    out.hideDustTransactions =
+        saved.hideDustTransactions !== undefined
+            ? saved.hideDustTransactions
+            : true;
+    out.dustThresholdGwei =
+        saved.dustThresholdGwei !== undefined
+            ? saved.dustThresholdGwei
+            : 100000;
+    out.utcTimestamps =
+        saved.utcTimestamps !== undefined ? saved.utcTimestamps : false;
+    out.fraudContracts = saved.fraudContracts || [];
+    out.tokenHolderCache = saved.tokenHolderCache || {};
+    out.theme = saved.theme || "system";
+    out.debugMode = saved.debugMode !== undefined ? saved.debugMode : false;
+    out.currentView = saved.currentView || null;
+    out.selectedWallet =
+        saved.selectedWallet !== undefined ? saved.selectedWallet : null;
+    out.selectedAddress =
+        saved.selectedAddress !== undefined ? saved.selectedAddress : null;
+    out.selectedToken = saved.selectedToken || null;
+    out.viewData = saved.viewData || {};
+    out.viewStack = restorableStack(saved.viewStack, out.currentView);
+    return out;
+}
+
+// The persisted fields as they stood at the end of this page's last
+// loadState() or saveState(). saveState() diffs the live state against this
+// to find only the fields THIS page actually changed.
+//
+// Deep-cloned, not a reference: callers mutate persisted objects and arrays
+// in place (state.wallets.push(...)), and a reference baseline would mutate
+// right along with `state`, so the diff would always come out empty.
+let baseline = null;
+
+function snapshotPersisted() {
+    const out = {};
+    for (const key of PERSISTED_FIELDS) out[key] = state[key];
+    return out;
+}
+
+function deepEqual(a, b) {
+    if (a === b) return true;
+    if (typeof a !== "object" || typeof b !== "object") return false;
+    if (a === null || b === null) return false;
+    if (Array.isArray(a) !== Array.isArray(b)) return false;
+    const aKeys = Object.keys(a);
+    const bKeys = Object.keys(b);
+    if (aKeys.length !== bKeys.length) return false;
+    for (const key of aKeys) {
+        if (!Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(b, key)) return false;
+        if (!deepEqual(a[key], b[key])) return false;
+    }
+    return true;
+}
+
+// Read-modify-write, merged per field, rather than one full-blob write.
+//
+// Every extension page (the toolbar popup, a dApp approval window, the
+// background's backgroundRefresh()) holds its own in-memory `state`, loaded
+// once, and showView() saves on every navigation. A full-blob write here
+// clobbers whatever a second page had written since — including, in the
+// worst case, an entire wallet and its encrypted secret with no attacker
+// and no unusual input (see the issue this fixes).
+//
+// Only the fields this page actually changed — those that differ from
+// `baseline`, captured at the last loadState()/saveState() on this page —
+// are written; every other field is carried forward from whatever is in
+// storage right now, which may already be a value another page wrote.
+//
+// This does not make two pages that both change the SAME field concurrently
+// safe: last write wins on that one field, same as before. What it removes
+// is the cross-field clobber — a page that only navigated overwriting a
+// wallet list it never touched.
+//
+// This page's own live `state` is deliberately NOT rehydrated from a field
+// another page changed — only the record written to storage is merged.
+// showView() fires saveState() on every navigation without awaiting it,
+// which is what makes the queue above necessary in the first place, and a
+// save that is slow to come back has no way to tell whether the field it
+// is about to hand back is still the current answer or has since been
+// overtaken by something this very page did in the meantime; writing it
+// into `state` regardless reintroduced exactly the clobber this function
+// exists to remove, just delayed and confined to one page instead of two
+// (caught by tests/txStatus.test.js). A page's live picture of a field it
+// does not own goes on being whatever its last loadState() saw, same as
+// before this fix; only the persisted record is guaranteed current.
+async function saveStateOnce() {
+    const current = snapshotPersisted();
+    const result = await storageGet("autistmask");
+    // Normalized, not raw: a field this page did not change still has to
+    // come from storage in its loaded (self-healed) shape. See
+    // normalizePersisted() above.
+    const fresh = normalizePersisted(result.autistmask);
+
+    const merged = { ...fresh };
+    for (const key of PERSISTED_FIELDS) {
+        if (baseline === null || !deepEqual(current[key], baseline[key])) {
+            merged[key] = current[key];
+        }
+    }
+    merged.hasWallet = Boolean(merged.wallets && merged.wallets.length > 0);
+
+    await storageSet({ autistmask: merged });
+
+    // Derived from this page's own wallets, never adopted off the wire —
+    // see loadState(). Everything else this page did not change is left
+    // exactly as it stood; see the note above.
+    state.hasWallet = state.wallets.length > 0;
+
+    baseline = structuredClone(snapshotPersisted());
+}
+
+// showView() calls saveState() on every navigation without awaiting it, so
+// two saves from the SAME page can be in flight at once — e.g. a screen
+// shown, then immediately replaced before the first save's storageGet()
+// round trip has come back. Left concurrent, the first save's turn would
+// finish after the second's live-state mutation and then re-hydrate `state`
+// from what IT read, stomping the second, later change back to a stale
+// value — the same clobber this function exists to prevent, just between
+// two saves on one page instead of two pages. Queuing makes every save's
+// snapshot-diff-write-rehydrate run start to finish before the next one
+// begins, so each one only ever sees the true live state at its turn.
+let saveQueue = Promise.resolve();
+
+function saveState() {
+    const turn = saveQueue.then(saveStateOnce);
+    // The queue must advance even when a save rejects, or every save after
+    // it queues behind a promise that never settles.
+    saveQueue = turn.catch(() => {});
+    return turn;
 }
 
 async function loadState() {
     const result = await storageGet("autistmask");
     if (result.autistmask) {
-        const saved = result.autistmask;
+        Object.assign(state, normalizePersisted(result.autistmask));
-        state.wallets = saved.wallets || [];
-        // Derived, never read from storage: a profile persisted with the flag
-        // out of step with the wallet list would otherwise stay broken on
-        // every load. Nothing depends on the two disagreeing.
-        state.hasWallet = state.wallets.length > 0;
-        state.trackedTokens = saved.trackedTokens || [];
-        state.networkId = saved.networkId || DEFAULT_STATE.networkId;
-        state.rpcUrl = saved.rpcUrl || DEFAULT_STATE.rpcUrl;
-        state.blockscoutUrl =
-            saved.blockscoutUrl || DEFAULT_STATE.blockscoutUrl;
-        // An actual object is required, not merely a truthy non-array: the
-        // code below and onChainSwitch() index and ASSIGN INTO this value,
-        // and assigning a property to a string or a number is a silent no-op
-        // in sloppy mode. A stored primitive would therefore be re-persisted
-        // unchanged forever, and every switch would fall back to the network
-        // default — the endpoint loss this map exists to prevent, with no
-        // self-healing. The allowedSites/deniedSites guards below are only
-        // read from, which is why they can be looser.
-        state.networkEndpoints =
-            typeof saved.networkEndpoints === "object" &&
-            saved.networkEndpoints !== null &&
-            !Array.isArray(saved.networkEndpoints)
-                ? saved.networkEndpoints
-                : {};
-        // A profile written before this map existed carries exactly one pair
-        // of endpoints, belonging to whatever network it was last on. Adopt
-        // it as that network's remembered pair, so a custom endpoint set on
-        // the old build is not lost by the first switch away and back.
-        if (!state.networkEndpoints[state.networkId]) {
-            state.networkEndpoints[state.networkId] = {
-                rpcUrl: state.rpcUrl,
-                blockscoutUrl: state.blockscoutUrl,
-            };
-        }
-        state.lastBalanceRefresh = saved.lastBalanceRefresh || 0;
-        state.activeAddress = saved.activeAddress || null;
-        state.allowedSites =
-            saved.allowedSites && !Array.isArray(saved.allowedSites)
-                ? saved.allowedSites
-                : {};
-        state.deniedSites =
-            saved.deniedSites && !Array.isArray(saved.deniedSites)
-                ? saved.deniedSites
-                : {};
-        state.rememberSiteChoice =
-            saved.rememberSiteChoice !== undefined
-                ? saved.rememberSiteChoice
-                : true;
-        state.showZeroBalanceTokens =
-            saved.showZeroBalanceTokens !== undefined
-                ? saved.showZeroBalanceTokens
-                : true;
-        // A profile written before this setting existed has no key for it.
-        // It is a safety filter, so absent must load as on, not as undefined.
-        state.hideSpoofedSymbols =
-            saved.hideSpoofedSymbols !== undefined
-                ? saved.hideSpoofedSymbols
-                : true;
-        state.hideLowHolderTokens =
-            saved.hideLowHolderTokens !== undefined
-                ? saved.hideLowHolderTokens
-                : true;
-        state.hideFraudContracts =
-            saved.hideFraudContracts !== undefined
-                ? saved.hideFraudContracts
-                : true;
-        state.hideDustTransactions =
-            saved.hideDustTransactions !== undefined
-                ? saved.hideDustTransactions
-                : true;
-        state.dustThresholdGwei =
-            saved.dustThresholdGwei !== undefined
-                ? saved.dustThresholdGwei
-                : 100000;
-        state.utcTimestamps =
-            saved.utcTimestamps !== undefined ? saved.utcTimestamps : false;
-        state.fraudContracts = saved.fraudContracts || [];
-        state.tokenHolderCache = saved.tokenHolderCache || {};
-        state.theme = saved.theme || "system";
-        state.debugMode =
-            saved.debugMode !== undefined ? saved.debugMode : false;
-        state.currentView = saved.currentView || null;
-        state.selectedWallet =
-            saved.selectedWallet !== undefined ? saved.selectedWallet : null;
-        state.selectedAddress =
-            saved.selectedAddress !== undefined ? saved.selectedAddress : null;
-        state.selectedToken = saved.selectedToken || null;
-        state.viewData = saved.viewData || {};
-        state.viewStack = restorableStack(saved.viewStack, state.currentView);
     }
+    // The point of comparison every saveState() on this page diffs against,
+    // whether storage had a profile or was empty. See PERSISTED_FIELDS above
+    // saveState() for why a reference here would be wrong.
+    baseline = structuredClone(snapshotPersisted());
 }
 
 function currentAddress() {

tests/stateMerge.test.js

@@ -0,0 +1,214 @@
+// saveState() used to write the entire state blob every time
+// (src/shared/state.js). Every extension page — the toolbar popup, a dApp
+// approval window opened by the background, backgroundRefresh() in
+// src/background/index.js — holds its own in-memory `state`, loaded once,
+// and src/popup/views/helpers.js showView() saves on EVERY navigation. So
+// any second page that saved after a first page had written something new
+// overwrote it, with no attacker and no unusual input: a whole wallet, name,
+// addresses and encrypted secret included, silently gone
+// (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/AutistMask/issues/304).
+//
+// Both cases below drive the real state.js module through two independent
+// module registries sharing one storage backend, the way two real extension
+// pages share one chrome.storage.local. The storage stub structured-clones
+// on both get and set — a stub that hands back the object it was given
+// aliases the caller's own mutation and would make this entire defect class
+// invisible (see https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/AutistMask/issues/324).
+
+function makeStorage() {
+    let store = {};
+    return {
+        get: async (keys) => {
+            const wanted =
+                keys === undefined || keys === null
+                    ? Object.keys(store)
+                    : [].concat(keys);
+            const out = {};
+            for (const key of wanted) {
+                if (key in store) out[key] = structuredClone(store[key]);
+            }
+            return out;
+        },
+        set: async (items) => {
+            for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(items)) {
+                store[key] = structuredClone(value);
+            }
+        },
+    };
+}
+
+// One extension page: a fresh module registry over the shared storage.
+// state.js resolves the storage API at require time, so the stub has to be
+// installed before the module is loaded, and `state` is a module-level
+// singleton, so each page needs its own registry to hold its own copy.
+function loadPage(storage) {
+    jest.resetModules();
+    globalThis.chrome = { storage: { local: storage } };
+    return {
+        state: require("../src/shared/state"),
+        helpers: require("../src/popup/views/helpers"),
+    };
+}
+
+function wallet(name, secret, address) {
+    return {
+        type: "hd",
+        name,
+        xpub: "xpub-" + name,
+        encryptedSecret: secret,
+        nextIndex: 1,
+        addresses: [{ address, balance: "0", tokenBalances: [] }],
+    };
+}
+
+const W1 = wallet(
+    "Wallet 1",
+    "secret-one",
+    "0x66133E8ea0f5D1d612D2502a968757D1048c214a",
+);
+const W2 = wallet(
+    "Wallet 2",
+    "secret-two",
+    "0xdAC17F958D2ee523a2206206994597C13D831ec7",
+);
+
+// Minimal DOM: showView() toggles view elements, clears the flash line and
+// creates/removes the debug banner. Nothing here is asserted; it only has to
+// answer without throwing, the way the popup's own index.html would.
+function makeElement(id) {
+    const classes = new Set();
+    return {
+        id,
+        textContent: "",
+        style: {},
+        classList: {
+            add: (...n) => n.forEach((c) => classes.add(c)),
+            remove: (...n) => n.forEach((c) => classes.delete(c)),
+            toggle: (c, force) => {
+                const on = force === undefined ? !classes.has(c) : force;
+                if (on) classes.add(c);
+                else classes.delete(c);
+                return on;
+            },
+        },
+        remove: () => {},
+    };
+}
+
+function makeDocument() {
+    const els = new Map();
+    return {
+        getElementById(id) {
+            if (id === "debug-banner") return null;
+            if (!els.has(id)) els.set(id, makeElement(id));
+            return els.get(id);
+        },
+        createElement: () => makeElement("created"),
+        body: { prepend: () => {} },
+    };
+}
+
+afterEach(() => {
+    delete globalThis.chrome;
+    delete globalThis.document;
+});
+
+describe("a save from a page that never saw a wallet another page added", () => {
+    // The first DoD case on the issue: add a wallet in one page, then force
+    // a save from a second page loaded before that wallet existed. Both
+    // wallets must survive.
+    test("both wallets are in storage afterwards", async () => {
+        const storage = makeStorage();
+        await storage.set({ autistmask: { wallets: [W1] } });
+
+        // Loaded while storage held only Wallet 1, and never reloads —
+        // the approval window in the reproduction, or a second popup that
+        // has been open for a while.
+        const stale = loadPage(storage);
+        await stale.state.loadState();
+        expect(stale.state.state.wallets).toHaveLength(1);
+
+        // A second page, loaded after, adds a wallet — the exact sequence
+        // src/popup/views/addWallet.js uses.
+        const fresh = loadPage(storage);
+        await fresh.state.loadState();
+        fresh.state.state.wallets.push(W2);
+        fresh.state.state.hasWallet = true;
+        await fresh.state.saveState();
+
+        expect(
+            (await storage.get("autistmask")).autistmask.wallets,
+        ).toHaveLength(2);
+
+        // The stale page saves something that has nothing to do with
+        // wallets — exactly what showView() does on every navigation, and
+        // what backgroundRefresh() does after a balance poll.
+        stale.state.state.currentView = "settings";
+        await stale.state.saveState();
+
+        const persisted = (await storage.get("autistmask")).autistmask;
+        expect(persisted.wallets.map((w) => w.name)).toEqual([
+            "Wallet 1",
+            "Wallet 2",
+        ]);
+        expect(persisted.wallets.map((w) => w.encryptedSecret)).toEqual([
+            "secret-one",
+            "secret-two",
+        ]);
+    });
+});
+
+describe("the approval-window reproduction", () => {
+    // approval window open, add a wallet in the popup, confirm the approval
+    // — the exact sequence from the issue. The approval window and the
+    // popup are the same popup code with a different starting view, so
+    // showView() is the real save path in both: src/popup/views/approval.js
+    // showTxApproval() calls showView("approve-tx") when the window opens,
+    // and a successful confirm calls
+    // src/popup/views/txStatus.js showWait() -> startWait(), which calls
+    // showView("wait-tx") — the save that clobbered the second wallet in
+    // the reproduction on the issue.
+    test("the wallet added in the popup survives confirming the approval", async () => {
+        globalThis.document = makeDocument();
+
+        const storage = makeStorage();
+        await storage.set({ autistmask: { wallets: [W1] } });
+
+        // The background opens the approval window on the approve-tx
+        // screen; nothing else has happened yet.
+        const approvalWindow = loadPage(storage);
+        await approvalWindow.state.loadState();
+        approvalWindow.helpers.showView("approve-tx");
+        // showView() does not await its own saveState(); an extra save
+        // joins the same queue and only resolves once that one has too,
+        // which is the black-box way to know it landed.
+        await approvalWindow.state.saveState();
+
+        // The user adds a wallet in the popup — a separate page, loaded
+        // after the approval window.
+        const popup = loadPage(storage);
+        await popup.state.loadState();
+        popup.state.state.wallets.push(W2);
+        popup.state.state.hasWallet = true;
+        await popup.state.saveState();
+        expect(
+            (await storage.get("autistmask")).autistmask.wallets,
+        ).toHaveLength(2);
+
+        // The user confirms the approval. The approval window navigates
+        // approve-tx -> wait-tx, saving again from state it loaded before
+        // Wallet 2 ever existed.
+        approvalWindow.helpers.showView("wait-tx");
+        await approvalWindow.state.saveState();
+
+        const persisted = (await storage.get("autistmask")).autistmask;
+        expect(persisted.wallets.map((w) => w.name)).toEqual([
+            "Wallet 1",
+            "Wallet 2",
+        ]);
+        expect(persisted.wallets.map((w) => w.encryptedSecret)).toEqual([
+            "secret-one",
+            "secret-two",
+        ]);
+    });
+});