fix: drive background refresh and phishing update from alarms (closes #158)
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The Chrome MV3 service worker is terminated after roughly 30 seconds idle,
which destroyed both recurring jobs: the 60-second balance refresh and the
24-hour phishing blocklist refresh were setInterval schedules, so in
practice each ran only while the worker happened to be alive. The phishing
delta was persisted to localStorage, which does not exist in a service
worker, so on Chrome it was never persisted at all.

Both jobs now run off the extension alarms API in the new
src/shared/alarms.js: the browser holds the schedule and wakes the worker to
deliver it. The balance refresh is one minute and the phishing refresh is
1440 minutes, both whole minutes at or above the one-minute minimum, so
neither is silently clamped. Alarms are created only when missing, because
creating one restarts its period and the startup path runs on every wake.

The phishing delta and the timestamp of the fetch that produced it now live
in extension storage, and updatePhishingList() reloads that record before
deciding whether a fetch is due. A revived worker therefore neither
re-fetches on every wake nor sleeps through an overdue update. The 256 KiB
cap covers the whole record: an oversized delta is dropped together with its
timestamp so the next start fetches again.

The startup path (ensureRecurringAlarms plus the phishing list init) is
registered on onInstalled and onStartup as well as running at the top level
of the worker, and is idempotent.

Firefox MV2 has a persistent background page where timers would have
survived, but both browsers are built from one bundle and both take the
alarm path, so there is a single code path; "alarms" is declared in both
manifests.

src/shared/ens.js keeps its localStorage cache and gains a comment recording
that it is popup-only, so it does not get pulled into the worker later.
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@@ -130,10 +130,14 @@ live list to pick up newly added domains, keeping only the entries not already
in the bundled copy (persisted locally if under 256 KiB). This endpoint is not
user-configurable.
When it is contacted: once when the background script starts, and every 24 hours
after that. It is a plain download of a public file — nothing about you is sent,
but the host sees your IP address. If the fetch fails, the bundled copy is still
used.
When it is contacted: when the background script starts, if the last fetch was
more than 24 hours ago, and every 24 hours after that. The time of the last
fetch is remembered across browser and background restarts, so restarting does
not cause a re-download. If a fetch fails, or the list is too large to keep, the
extension waits an hour before trying again outside that 24-hour schedule rather
than retrying on every restart. It is a plain download of a public file —
nothing about you is sent, but the host sees your IP address. If the fetch
fails, the bundled copy is still used.
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