release: package the extension, pin the Chrome extension id, and prove the wallet survives a reinstall (closes #310)
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There was no packaging target anywhere, no artifact, and no `key` in
`manifest/chrome.json` — so an unpacked Chrome load derived its extension
id, and therefore its `chrome.storage.local` partition, from the absolute
checkout path. Moving or re-cloning the checkout presented an empty
wallet, with no error and nothing in the UI to say so.

`manifest/chrome.json` now carries a fixed `key`: the public half of an
RSA keypair, which pins the extension id to
`gipbhkogfopeahplcjhipkgpcimdpkip`. The private half is a credential and
is not in this repo; no target generates one into the working tree, and
`tests/extensionId.test.js` fails if a `.pem` is ever committed. Changing
`key` changes the id and orphans every wallet stored under the old one.

`make package` (script/package) runs `make build` — the only audited path
to a release build — and writes one self-contained, versioned archive per
browser into `release/`, plus `SHA256SUMS`. The archives are deterministic:
entries sorted, timestamps fixed, compression level fixed, so two builds
of one commit are byte-identical. Self-containment is checked rather than
assumed: every path the manifests and the popup HTML reference is resolved
and required to be inside the archive, a reference that climbs out of the
extension root is a hard failure, and files left at the `dist/` root —
`dist/styles.css`, which build.js copies into each browser directory — are
reported as deliberately not shipped rather than dropped by a glob. The
archive is then read back off disk and compared member by member against
the directory it was built from. The zip writer and reader are stdlib zlib
in `script/lib/zip.js`; no new dependency, and nothing unpinned.

One version, enforced rather than generated. `script/lib/version.js`
requires `package.json`, `manifest/chrome.json` and `manifest/firefox.json`
to agree and fails the build naming each file and what it said, instead of
reading from one of the three. `BUILD_COMMIT` now carries `-dirty` when the
working tree does not match `HEAD`, and `-unknown` when git cannot say;
the full hash behind the About screen's commit link stays clean so the link
still resolves.

Two real-browser observations, both run through the pinned harnesses:

- `tests/e2e/storagePartition.js` loads the build from two different paths
  in one Chrome profile. With `key`: same id, and the second load reads the
  first load's storage. Without `key`: different ids, and the second load
  sees an empty partition. Loading both keyed copies at once yields one id,
  not two.
- `tests/e2e/firefox/reinstall.js` installs the packaged XPI in a real
  Firefox, creates a wallet, quits the browser, restarts on the same
  profile, adds the add-on again, and decrypts the vault back to the
  original recovery phrase. It then observes that an explicit uninstall
  DESTROYS that storage — correct browser behaviour, but for a wallet it
  means Remove is irreversible except from the recovery phrase, so
  README.md says so.

Firefox ships an UNSIGNED XPI. README.md states plainly that release
Firefox and ESR will refuse it, that Developer Edition, Nightly or an
Unbranded build is required, and that a temporary add-on does not survive
a browser restart. AMO signing, CRX packing, tagging and any upload are
deliberately out of scope.
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@@ -44,7 +44,107 @@ Load the extension:
- **Chrome**: Navigate to `chrome://extensions/`, enable "Developer mode", click
"Load unpacked", and select the `dist/chrome/` directory.
- **Firefox**: Navigate to `about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox`, click "Load
Temporary Add-on", and select `dist/firefox/manifest.json`.
Temporary Add-on", and select `dist/firefox/manifest.json`. Read
[Installing on Firefox](#installing-on-firefox) before relying on this: a
temporary add-on does not survive closing the browser.
### Release Artifacts
`make package` runs `make build` and then writes one self-contained, versioned
archive per browser into `release/`, plus a `SHA256SUMS` for them:
```bash
make package
```
```
release/autistmask-chrome-<version>.zip
release/autistmask-firefox-<version>.xpi
release/SHA256SUMS
```
Nothing is published by this. Tagging, CRX packing and any upload are
outward-facing acts and are the owner's alone.
The archives are deterministic — entries sorted, timestamps fixed, compression
level fixed — so two builds of one commit produce byte-identical files and the
recorded digest is a property of the input rather than of the clock.
**Self-containment is checked, not assumed.** `build.js` writes the compiled
Tailwind output to `dist/styles.css` at the `dist/` ROOT, outside both browser
directories, and copies it into each of them as `src/popup/styles.css`; a naive
`zip -r dist/chrome` is therefore correct only by accident. So the packager
resolves every path referenced by the manifest and by every HTML document in the
archive, requires each to be inside the archive, and fails on any reference that
climbs out of the extension root. Files left at the `dist/` root are printed as
deliberately not shipped rather than dropped by a glob. The archive is then read
back off disk and compared member by member against the directory it was built
from: an archive nobody opened is a claim, not an artifact.
There is one version, and the build enforces it. `package.json`,
`manifest/chrome.json` and `manifest/firefox.json` each declare one and none is
derived from another — the manifests are copied to `dist/` verbatim, which is
what `tests/manifest.test.js` asserts — so `script/lib/version.js` requires all
three to agree and **fails the build when they do not**, naming each file and
what it said. `tests/version.test.js` covers that rule in `make check`.
### Installing on Chrome
`manifest/chrome.json` carries a fixed `key`: the public half of an RSA keypair,
base64-encoded DER. It exists for one reason. An unpacked Chrome extension with
no `key` gets an extension id derived from the **absolute path it was loaded
from**, and `chrome.storage.local` — which is where the wallet lives — is
partitioned by that id. Move the checkout, re-clone it, or load a second copy
from anywhere else, and the extension comes up on a fresh, empty storage
partition: the wallet is simply gone, with no error and nothing in the UI to say
so. With the `key` in place the id is derived from the key instead, and follows
the extension wherever it is loaded from. That id is
`gipbhkogfopeahplcjhipkgpcimdpkip`, pinned in `tests/extensionId.test.js` and
observed against a real Chrome in `tests/e2e/storagePartition.js`.
**Changing `key` changes the extension id, and orphans every wallet stored under
the old one.** It is a migration, not an edit.
The **private** half is a credential. It is not in this repository, no target
generates one into the working tree, `*.pem` and `*.key` are gitignored, and
`tests/extensionId.test.js` fails if such a file is ever committed. It is not
needed to build, load or test anything here — it signs a CRX, and this repo does
not pack one. A packer would take it from outside the repo, e.g.
`chrome --pack-extension=dist/chrome --pack-extension-key=<path to the .pem>`.
### Installing on Firefox
**The XPI this repo produces is UNSIGNED, and release Firefox and Firefox ESR
will refuse to install it.** Those builds enforce add-on signing with no working
override — `xpinstall.signatures.required` does nothing on them — so a permanent
install needs Firefox Developer Edition, Nightly, or an Unbranded build, with
`xpinstall.signatures.required` set to `false` in `about:config`.
Signing means submitting to AMO (self-distribution is enough, and does not
require listing), which needs credentials this repository does not have and is
the owner's decision.
The other route is `about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox` -> "Load Temporary
Add-on", which works on every Firefox including release. **A temporary add-on is
unloaded when Firefox exits**, so daily use means re-adding it by hand on every
browser start.
**The wallet survives the restart.** `manifest/firefox.json` declares a fixed
`browser_specific_settings.gecko.id`, and Firefox keys the extension's storage
area on that id rather than on the install, so adding the temporary add-on again
in the same profile finds the vault where it left it. That is asserted, not
assumed: `tests/e2e/firefox/reinstall.js` installs the packaged XPI in a real
Firefox, creates a wallet through the UI, quits the browser, starts it again on
the same profile, adds the add-on again, and decrypts the vault with the
original password back to the original recovery phrase. The `moz-extension://`
origin the popup is served from is _not_ stable across installs and does not
need to be — nothing durable is keyed on it.
**Removing the add-on does not.** An explicit uninstall — about:addons "Remove"
— destroys the extension's storage, and the vault with it. That is ordinary,
correct browser behaviour and it is observed in the same suite, but for a wallet
it is worth saying out loud: **on Firefox, Remove is irreversible, and the
recovery phrase is the only way back.**
### Debug Builds
@@ -146,6 +246,11 @@ provide:
fails anywhere else. Part of `make check`, which inspects `dist/` when there
is one and says loudly when there is not; `make build` re-runs it with
`--require-dist`, so a build artifact is always covered
- `script/package` — produce the release artifacts: `make build` first, so the
archives can only ever be made from a `dist/` that has been verified against
that build's own receipt as a RELEASE build, then one self-contained,
versioned archive per browser into `release/` (see
[Release Artifacts](#release-artifacts)). It packages and does not publish
- `script/vendor-blocklist` — refresh `src/shared/phishingBlocklist.json` from
its upstream, pinned to a commit and to the sha256 of the bytes that commit
serves. Run deliberately, never as part of a build: the output is committed
@@ -198,7 +303,7 @@ The Makefile shims to those. It also carries a few targets that have no
- `make build-debug` — the same build with `AUTISTMASK_DEBUG=1`, verified as a
debug build, and keeping its `dist/` on failure (see
[Debug Builds](#debug-builds))
- `make clean` — remove `dist/`
- `make clean` — remove `dist/` and `release/`
- `make dev` — build in watch mode
## End-to-End Tests
@@ -334,6 +439,23 @@ class before a browser is involved, so this suite is no longer the only thing
standing between it and a release — but a static rule only sees identifiers, and
the runtime errors this suite catches are broader than one rule.
`make test-e2e` then runs a second program in the same image,
`tests/e2e/storagePartition.js`, which answers where `chrome.storage.local`
lives. It loads the built extension from one temporary directory in a fresh
profile, writes a sentinel key the extension itself never touches, closes the
browser, and loads a **copy at a different path into the same profile** — then
does it again with `key` stripped out of the manifest, and reports what each
pair actually did rather than what it expected. It needs its own browser
sessions, four of them, because the whole subject is what happens ACROSS loads.
The observed behaviour, on the pinned Chromium: **with `key`, both paths get the
same extension id and the second load reads the first load's storage. Without
`key`, the two paths get different ids and the second load sees an empty
partition** — the wallet, silently gone. Loading both keyed copies at once in
one profile yields a single extension id, not two: Chrome does not load a second
copy of an id it already has. The assertions are annotated as observations, so a
Chrome that ever changes this fails the run instead of passing it.
### Firefox (`make test-e2e-firefox`)
`make test-e2e-firefox` builds `dist/firefox/` and drives the **real popup in a
@@ -351,6 +473,33 @@ runner rather than believed from the extension, and the stub node has to answer
`eth_sendRawTransaction` with the hash `ethers` computes for the artifact it
sent, or `provider.broadcastTransaction()` refuses the answer.
`make test-e2e-firefox` then runs a second program in the same image,
`tests/e2e/firefox/reinstall.js`, and it installs the **packaged XPI** rather
than the unpacked directory — the only place a real Firefox is asked to load the
artifact that would actually be handed to someone. It runs two browsers over one
profile, because it asks two questions that have different answers:
- **Restart.** Install, create a wallet through the UI, record the vault, quit
the browser, start it again on the same profile, add the add-on again. The
extension must not come up as a fresh install; the vault, xpub and first
address must be unchanged; and the vault must still **decrypt** with the
original password to the original recovery phrase, through the real Show
Recovery Phrase screen. "The ciphertext is still in storage" and "the wallet
still works" are different claims and only the second one is worth anything.
This is what a user does every day, because a temporary add-on is unloaded
when Firefox exits.
- **Removal.** Then, in the same browser, an explicit uninstall and a fresh
install. Observed: **Firefox destroys the extension's storage on uninstall**,
so the vault is gone. Recorded as an assertion, so a Firefox that ever changes
it fails the run, and stated in
[Installing on Firefox](#installing-on-firefox) because for a wallet it means
Remove is irreversible except from the recovery phrase.
It also pins down something worth knowing about the harness: the
`moz-extension://` uuid the popup is served from is not stable across installs,
and navigating to a stale one does not fail — it hangs. The program reads the
live uuid out of `extensions.webextensions.uuids` after every install.
Both suites build their own image, each with the repo and a fresh extension
build baked in; what differs is the base. The Chrome image layers those on top
of a published Playwright image, whereas this one is assembled from a `node`