fix: a site allowed without Remember stays connected when the background worker idles (closes #526)

A connection allowed without "Remember my choice for this site" lived in a module-level object in the background, so it ended the first time Chrome stopped the idle worker. Each such connection is now one item in the browser's session storage, which outlives the worker and is emptied when the browser closes, read and written through new wrappers in src/shared/browserApi.js. Removal in Settings, address switch, address removal and wallet removal still end it; Settings now waits for the removal before redrawing.

manifest/firefox.json now declares a minimum of Firefox 115.0, the first with session storage.

Judgement call: address and wallet removal still notify the background without waiting.

Model: opus-5-5

src/shared/browserApi.js

@@ -174,9 +174,9 @@ function notify(message) {
 // default: resolving {} would make an existing wallet read back as no wallet,
 // and resolving a no-op write would discard the user's state with nothing
 // logged. A caller that wants to degrade takes storageLocal() directly.
-function storageUnavailable(method) {
+function storageUnavailable(area, method) {
     return Promise.reject(
-        new Error("extension storage.local is not available: " + method),
+        new Error("extension storage." + area + " is not available: " + method),
     );
 }
 
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ function storageUnavailable(method) {
  */
 function storageGet(keys) {
     const storage = storageLocal();
-    if (!storage) return storageUnavailable("get");
+    if (!storage) return storageUnavailable("local", "get");
     return Promise.resolve(storage.get(keys));
 }
 
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ function storageGet(keys) {
  */
 function storageSet(items) {
     const storage = storageLocal();
-    if (!storage) return storageUnavailable("set");
+    if (!storage) return storageUnavailable("local", "set");
     return Promise.resolve(storage.set(items));
 }
 
@@ -215,7 +215,55 @@ function storageSet(items) {
  */
 function storageRemove(keys) {
     const storage = storageLocal();
-    if (!storage) return storageUnavailable("remove");
+    if (!storage) return storageUnavailable("local", "remove");
+    return Promise.resolve(storage.remove(keys));
+}
+
+// `storage.session`, the browser's session storage: what is kept there lasts
+// until the browser closes. It survives the background worker being stopped
+// and started again, which module-level variables do not (README, Background
+// scheduling). The background keeps the connections allowed without
+// "Remember" there; see src/background/index.js. Firefox has it from version
+// 115, the minimum manifest/firefox.json declares.
+//
+// The three below reject where it is absent, as the three above do where
+// `storage.local` is: a write that silently did nothing would tell a site it
+// is connected and then refuse its next request.
+function storageSession() {
+    const storage = namespaceMember("storage");
+    return (storage && storage.session) || null;
+}
+
+/**
+ * @param {string|string[]|null} keys null for every item.
+ * @returns {Promise<Object>} the stored items.
+ * @throws rejects where `storage.session` is absent.
+ */
+function sessionStorageGet(keys) {
+    const storage = storageSession();
+    if (!storage) return storageUnavailable("session", "get");
+    return Promise.resolve(storage.get(keys));
+}
+
+/**
+ * @param {Object} items
+ * @returns {Promise<void>}
+ * @throws rejects where `storage.session` is absent.
+ */
+function sessionStorageSet(items) {
+    const storage = storageSession();
+    if (!storage) return storageUnavailable("session", "set");
+    return Promise.resolve(storage.set(items));
+}
+
+/**
+ * @param {string|string[]} keys
+ * @returns {Promise<void>}
+ * @throws rejects where `storage.session` is absent.
+ */
+function sessionStorageRemove(keys) {
+    const storage = storageSession();
+    if (!storage) return storageUnavailable("session", "remove");
     return Promise.resolve(storage.remove(keys));
 }
 
@@ -307,6 +355,9 @@ module.exports = {
     notify,
     runtimeApi,
     sendMessage,
+    sessionStorageGet,
+    sessionStorageRemove,
+    sessionStorageSet,
     storageGet,
     storageLocal,
     storageRemove,