fix: an open popup moves to the recovery screen when its profile becomes unreadable (closes #373)

A popup already open when the stored profile became unreadable stayed on the
last good profile until reopened. Every save already runs the check loadState()
runs at open; a save refused by it now raises the recovery screen, stops the
ten-second refresh, and passes the screen to showView(), which runs the leave
cleanup of the screen it replaces and records it as the current view. From
then on showView() shows nothing else, so a transaction wait or a later save
cannot take the user off it or clear an export or a typed confirmation. Any
other failed save keeps the "NOT SAVED" banner. The popup test harness now
honours clearInterval().

Model: opus-5-5

README.md

@@ -1933,10 +1933,19 @@ view would leave a wallet one click from deletion.
     - Danger warning box (shown for `eth_sign`, which signs a raw hash)
     - Type: "Personal message" or "Typed data (EIP-712)"
     - From: color dot + full address + etherscan link
-    - Message: decoded UTF-8 text (personal_sign) or formatted domain/type/
-      message fields (EIP-712 typed data). The primary type shown is the one
-      ethers signs, derived from the typed data's `types`, not the type the site
-      states.
+    - Message: for `personal_sign` and `eth_sign`, the text the message's bytes
+      decode to as UTF-8, laid out left to right in the order of the bytes that
+      are signed, right-to-left characters included. Each control character,
+      each line or paragraph separator (U+2028, U+2029; left in the text, a
+      paragraph separator would end that layout for the text after it), and each
+      character that paints nothing (format characters such as zero-width and
+      bidirectional ones, default-ignorable characters such as variation
+      selectors and Hangul fillers, and DELETE), is shown as a bordered `U+XXXX`
+      mark instead of acting on the text; a line feed is shown as a line break.
+      Bytes that are not UTF-8 are shown as "This message is not text." For
+      typed data, formatted domain/type/message fields (EIP-712). The primary
+      type shown is the one ethers signs, derived from the typed data's `types`,
+      not the type the site states.
     - Token permission warning, at the top of the message (typed data whose
       primary type is `Permit`, as in EIP-2612, or one of Permit2's signature
       types): "⚠️ TOKEN PERMISSION: Signing this lets the spender below take the
@@ -1948,12 +1957,20 @@ view would leave a wallet one click from deletion.
       domain's `verifyingContract`; any those fields do not give is shown as
       `Unknown`, and the domain, type and message lines still follow. Only typed
       data that cannot be read at all is shown as raw text.
+    - Raw data (`personal_sign` and `eth_sign`): the message's hex exactly as
+      the site sent it. The bytes it encodes are what is signed, as an EIP-191
+      personal message.
     - Password input and an error line
     - "Sign" / "Reject" buttons
 - **Transitions**:
     - Typed data that states no primary type, or one other than the type it
       would be signed as, or that cannot be read → shown with the error line
       saying so and "Sign" disabled; only "Reject" remains
+    - A `personal_sign` or `eth_sign` message that is not hex (`0x` or `0X` and
+      an even number of hex digits, the form ethers' `getBytes` reads when
+      signing) → shown as plain text, with the error line "This message is plain
+      text, not hex, so it cannot be signed." and "Sign" disabled; signing takes
+      the bytes from the hex, so such a message has none to sign
     - "Sign" (correct password) → signs locally → closes popup (returns
       signature)
     - "Sign" (wrong password, or a signing failure) → error line, no screen
@@ -1972,10 +1989,12 @@ view would leave a wallet one click from deletion.
   reaches the network ([#373](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/AutistMask/issues/373)).
   A save that fails for any other reason, such as a storage read or write that
   errors, gets the "NOT SAVED" banner instead and leaves the screen as it is.
-  Once up, the screen stays until the popup closes or the record is erased:
-  nothing in AutistMask writes over a record that fails the check, so it cannot
-  become readable again underneath. It is the only screen that never appears
-  during ordinary use.
+  The screen it replaces is left as any navigation leaves it, so a revealed
+  phrase or key, or a typed password, is wiped. Once up, the screen stays until
+  the popup closes or the record is erased: work still running in the popup,
+  such as a transaction wait, cannot replace it, and nothing in AutistMask
+  writes over a record that fails the check, so it cannot become readable again
+  underneath. It is the only screen that never appears during ordinary use.
 - **Why it exists**: a record the wallet cannot read used to render nothing — no
   view, no message, no control — while every dApp call answered a generic
   internal error, and no reset or wipe control existed anywhere in the product.
@@ -2002,16 +2021,20 @@ view would leave a wallet one click from deletion.
       Nothing was erased." on the error line
 - **No other control is reachable.** The Settings gear is hidden while this
   screen is up, because every screen behind it renders from the profile that
-  could not be read, and `showView()` is not used to raise it for the same
-  reason — it reads and writes the state singleton.
+  could not be read. At open `showView()` is not used to raise it for the same
+  reason — it reads and writes the state singleton. Under an open popup it is
+  also passed to `showView()`, which runs the replaced screen's cleanup and
+  records it as the current view, and `showView()` shows nothing else after
+  that.
 - **Both controls are required.** An export with no reset leaves the user
   looking at a broken profile with no way to use the wallet again; a reset with
   no export destroys the only copy of a record that may hold recoverable key
   material. The typed phrase is the same barrier DeleteWalletLostPassword uses,
   and for the same reason: there is no password to gate this with, since there
   is no profile to check one against.
-- Not in `RESTORABLE_VIEWS`: it is never persisted as the current view, because
-  nothing on this path writes state at all.
+- Not in `RESTORABLE_VIEWS`, and not persisted as the current view: at open
+  nothing on this path writes state at all, and under an open popup the check
+  that raised the screen refuses the save that would record it.
 
 ### External Services
 

TODO.md

@@ -51,10 +51,22 @@ but the review is broader than any of them.
   the last good profile, with the "NOT SAVED" banner at most, until reopened.
   Every save already ran the check the popup runs at open; a save that fails
   that check now raises the recovery screen and stops the ten-second refresh, so
-  the popup finds the record at the next navigation or refresh. Any other failed
-  save still gets the banner and leaves the screen alone. The recovery screen
-  ignores a second request to show it, so a later save does not clear an export
-  or a typed confirmation.
+  the popup finds the record at the next navigation or refresh. The screen it
+  replaces is left as any navigation leaves it, so a revealed phrase or key or a
+  typed password is wiped. Once up, nothing else can replace it, and a later
+  save or a transaction wait that ends does not clear an export or a typed
+  confirmation. Any other failed save still gets the banner and leaves the
+  screen alone.
+- 2026-10-04: The signature screen shows a personal message as the bytes that
+  are signed ([#403](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/AutistMask/issues/403)). It
+  showed only the decoded text, with bidirectional and zero-width characters
+  acting on it, so a site could make the message read differently from what is
+  signed, and a message that was not hex was shown as NUL characters. The hex is
+  now shown as "Raw data" alongside the decoded text, the text is laid out left
+  to right in byte order, control characters, line and paragraph separators and
+  characters that paint nothing are shown as `U+XXXX` marks, and a message that
+  is not hex by the rule signing reads it with is shown as plain text with
+  "Sign" disabled, since such a message has no bytes to sign.
 - 2026-10-04: A token that reports more than 80 decimal places has no known
   scale ([#350](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/AutistMask/issues/350)). The shared
   scale check `toDecimals()` accepted any `uint8`, but `formatUnits()` throws

src/popup/index.html

@@ -1698,6 +1698,15 @@
                     ></div>
                 </div>
 
+                <div id="approve-sign-hex-section" class="mb-3 hidden">
+                    <div class="text-xs text-muted mb-1">Raw data</div>
+                    <div
+                        id="approve-sign-hex"
+                        class="text-xs break-all"
+                        style="max-height: 6rem; overflow-y: auto"
+                    ></div>
+                </div>
+
                 <div class="mb-2">
                     <label class="block mb-1 text-xs">Password</label>
                     <input

src/popup/index.js

@@ -164,13 +164,19 @@ async function init() {
     // check loadState() runs below. So a record that becomes unreadable while
     // the popup is open is found by the next save, a navigation or the
     // ten-second refresh, and gets the screen it would get at open
-    // (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/AutistMask/issues/373). Any other failed save
-    // is a read or write that failed, and gets the banner without changing
-    // the screen.
+    // (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/AutistMask/issues/373). The recovery screen
+    // is then also passed to showView(), which runs the leave cleanup of the
+    // screen it replaces, so a phrase, key or password on it is wiped, and
+    // records it as the current view, after which showView() shows nothing
+    // else. The save showView() fires fails too and comes back here, where
+    // both calls see the screen already up and do nothing. Any other failed
+    // save is a read or write that failed, and gets the banner without
+    // changing the screen.
     onSaveFailure((e) => {
         if (e instanceof StateUnusableError) {
             clearInterval(refreshTimer);
             stateRecovery.show(e);
+            showView("state-recovery");
         } else {
             showSaveFailureBanner(e);
         }

src/popup/styles/main.css

@@ -64,3 +64,13 @@ body {
     white-space: nowrap;
     overflow-x: auto;
 }
+
+/* A personal message on the signature screen is laid out left to right in
+ * the order of its bytes. Without this, right-to-left characters in it move
+ * the characters around them: `5`, U+05C3, `00` would read as `500`
+ * followed by U+05C3. A paragraph separator (U+2029) ends this layout for
+ * the text after it, so src/popup/views/approval.js shows one as a mark. */
+.am-byte-order {
+    direction: ltr;
+    unicode-bidi: bidi-override;
+}

src/popup/views/approval.js

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ const {
 } = require("ethers");
 const { getPrice, formatUsd } = require("../../shared/prices");
 const { ERC20_ABI } = require("../../shared/constants");
+const { INVISIBLE_CHARACTERS } = require("../../shared/symbolSpoof");
 const {
     resolveTokenDecimals,
     resolveTokenSymbol,
@@ -380,20 +381,48 @@ function showTxApproval(details) {
     );
 }
 
+// Whether a personal message is hex by the rule signing reads it with:
+// signing takes getBytes(message), which throws on anything else.
+function isHexMessage(message) {
+    try {
+        getBytes(message);
+        return true;
+    } catch {
+        return false;
+    }
+}
+
+// The text the hex message's bytes decode to as UTF-8, or null when they are
+// not UTF-8. The caller has checked that the message is hex.
 function decodeHexMessage(hex) {
     try {
-        const bytes = Uint8Array.from(
-            hex
-                .slice(2)
-                .match(/.{1,2}/g)
-                .map((b) => parseInt(b, 16)),
-        );
-        return toUtf8String(bytes);
+        return toUtf8String(getBytes(hex));
     } catch {
         return null;
     }
 }
 
+// A character shown as a bordered U+XXXX mark.
+function codePointMark(c) {
+    const code = c.codePointAt(0).toString(16).toUpperCase();
+    return `<span class="border border-border">U+${code.padStart(4, "0")}</span>`;
+}
+
+// The text as HTML, with each character that paints nothing (zero-width and
+// bidirectional characters, variation selectors and Hangul fillers among
+// them), each control character and each line or paragraph separator
+// (U+2028, U+2029) shown as a mark. A line feed is shown as a line break.
+// Left in the text, a paragraph separator would end the byte-order layout
+// for everything after it. The marks are plain ASCII, so the second pass
+// leaves them be.
+function markInvisibleCharacters(text) {
+    return escapeHtml(text)
+        .replace(INVISIBLE_CHARACTERS, codePointMark)
+        .replace(/[\p{Cc}\p{Zl}\p{Zp}]/gu, (c) =>
+            c === "\n" ? "<br>" : codePointMark(c),
+        );
+}
+
 // The type ethers will sign typed data as. ethers does not read the page's
 // `primaryType`: it takes the one struct in `types` that no other struct
 // refers to. Throws when the types name no such single struct, which ethers
@@ -657,15 +686,33 @@ function showSignApproval(details) {
         ? "Typed data (EIP-712)"
         : "Personal message";
 
+    // A personal message is signed as the bytes its hex encodes, so the hex
+    // is shown as well as any text it decodes to, and that text is laid out
+    // left to right in the order of its bytes. Signing reads the bytes from
+    // the hex, so a message that is not hex cannot be signed: it is shown as
+    // the text it is, and refused.
+    let refusal = null;
+    $("approve-sign-hex-section").classList.add("hidden");
+    $("approve-sign-message").classList.toggle("am-byte-order", !isTyped);
     if (isTyped) {
         $("approve-sign-message").innerHTML = formatTypedDataHtml(sp.typedData);
-    } else {
+        refusal = typedDataRefusal(sp);
+    } else if (isHexMessage(sp.message)) {
         const decoded = decodeHexMessage(sp.message);
         if (decoded !== null) {
-            $("approve-sign-message").textContent = decoded;
+            $("approve-sign-message").innerHTML =
+                markInvisibleCharacters(decoded);
         } else {
-            $("approve-sign-message").textContent = sp.message;
+            $("approve-sign-message").textContent = "This message is not text.";
         }
+        $("approve-sign-hex").textContent = sp.message;
+        $("approve-sign-hex-section").classList.remove("hidden");
+    } else {
+        $("approve-sign-message").innerHTML = markInvisibleCharacters(
+            sp.message,
+        );
+        refusal =
+            "This message is plain text, not hex, so it cannot be signed.";
     }
 
     // Display danger warning for eth_sign (raw hash signing)
@@ -687,7 +734,6 @@ function showSignApproval(details) {
 
     showView("approve-sign");
     attachCopyHandlers("view-approve-sign");
-    const refusal = typedDataRefusal(sp);
     if (refusal) {
         showError("approve-sign-error", refusal);
         $("btn-approve-sign").disabled = true;

src/popup/views/helpers.js

@@ -52,9 +52,10 @@ const VIEWS = [
     "export-privkey",
     "show-phrase",
     // Shown by src/popup/views/stateRecovery.js when the stored profile
-    // cannot be read. It is never reached through showView() — by then the
-    // state singleton this file writes on every navigation refuses to be read
-    // or saved — but it is listed so that every view-hiding loop covers it.
+    // cannot be read. At open it is not reached through showView(), since the
+    // state singleton refuses to be read; under an open popup,
+    // src/popup/index.js also passes it to showView() so the screen it
+    // replaces is left like any other.
     "state-recovery",
 ];
 
@@ -86,6 +87,11 @@ function hideError(id) {
 }
 
 function showView(name) {
+    // The recovery screen, once up, is never replaced: work still running
+    // when it went up, such as a transaction wait, must not take the user off
+    // it or clear what they exported or typed there
+    // (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/AutistMask/issues/373).
+    if (state.currentView === "state-recovery") return;
     const leaving = state.currentView;
     if (leaving && leaving !== name) {
         const onLeave = viewLeaveHandlers.get(leaving);

src/shared/symbolSpoof.js

@@ -34,6 +34,11 @@ function normalizeAddress(addr) {
     return (addr || "").toLowerCase();
 }
 
+// The characters that paint nothing; normalizeSymbol below says which they
+// are. The signature screen marks them in a personal message
+// (src/popup/views/approval.js).
+const INVISIBLE_CHARACTERS = /[\p{Cf}\p{Default_Ignorable_Code_Point}\x7F]/gu;
+
 // Fold a symbol onto what a user actually sees, and no further:
 //
 //   NFKC        collapses compatibility variants that render as the ASCII
@@ -82,7 +87,7 @@ function normalizeAddress(addr) {
 function normalizeSymbol(symbol) {
     return String(symbol || "")
         .normalize("NFKC")
-        .replace(/[\p{Cf}\p{Default_Ignorable_Code_Point}\x7F]/gu, "")
+        .replace(INVISIBLE_CHARACTERS, "")
         .trim()
         .toUpperCase();
 }
@@ -104,5 +109,6 @@ function isSpoofedSymbol(symbol, contractAddress) {
 }
 
 module.exports = {
+    INVISIBLE_CHARACTERS,
     isSpoofedSymbol,
 };

tests/e2e/run.js

@@ -3232,6 +3232,64 @@ test("personal_sign rejected returns a rejection to the page (#183)", async (env
     );
 });
 
+// A right-to-left character must not move the characters around it: U+05C3
+// between "5" and "00" would otherwise put "500" on screen before it. A
+// paragraph separator (U+2029) before it, left in the text, would end the
+// byte-order layout and bring that back
+// (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/AutistMask/issues/403).
+test("a personal message is laid out in the order of its bytes (#403)", async (env) => {
+    const rightToLeft = String.fromCodePoint(0x05c3);
+    const text =
+        "Sign in" +
+        String.fromCodePoint(0x2029) +
+        "Pay 5" +
+        rightToLeft +
+        "00 ETH";
+    await startRequest(env.dapp, "sign-bidi", "personal_sign", [
+        hexlify(toUtf8Bytes(text)),
+        env.expectedAddress,
+    ]);
+    const popup = await waitForApprovalWindow(env.ctx);
+    await visible(popup, "#view-approve-sign");
+
+    // The text on screen, marks included, and the left edge of each of its
+    // characters, in byte order. A character the browser's fonts draw with
+    // no width shares its neighbour's edge.
+    const shown = await popup.evaluate(() => {
+        const message = document.getElementById("approve-sign-message");
+        const walker = document.createTreeWalker(message, NodeFilter.SHOW_TEXT);
+        const range = document.createRange();
+        let text = "";
+        const lefts = [];
+        for (let node = walker.nextNode(); node; node = walker.nextNode()) {
+            for (let i = 0; i < node.length; i++) {
+                range.setStart(node, i);
+                range.setEnd(node, i + 1);
+                lefts.push(range.getBoundingClientRect().left);
+            }
+            text += node.data;
+        }
+        return { text, lefts };
+    });
+    await clickAndClose(popup, "#btn-reject-sign");
+    await assertUserRejection(
+        env.dapp,
+        "sign-bidi",
+        "the byte-order personal_sign rejection",
+    );
+
+    assert(
+        shown.text === "Sign inU+2029Pay 5" + rightToLeft + "00 ETH",
+        "the paragraph separator is not shown as a mark: " +
+            JSON.stringify(shown.text),
+    );
+    assert(
+        shown.lefts.every((left, i) => i === 0 || left >= shown.lefts[i - 1]),
+        "the personal message is not laid out in byte order: " +
+            JSON.stringify(shown.lefts),
+    );
+});
+
 test("eth_signTypedData_v4 signs, and the signature recovers (#183)", async (env) => {
     await startRequest(env.dapp, "typed", "eth_signTypedData_v4", [
         env.expectedAddress,

tests/personalSignDisplay.test.js

@@ -0,0 +1,229 @@
+// The signature prompt shows a personal message as the bytes that are signed
+// (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/AutistMask/issues/403): the raw data in hex, the
+// text it decodes to with control characters, line and paragraph separators
+// and characters that paint nothing marked rather than obeyed, markup shown as
+// text, laid out in byte order, and a message that is not hex as plain text
+// that cannot be signed.
+//
+// Driven against a minimal DOM stub in the shape
+// tests/approvalOrigin.test.js uses. That the layout keeps right-to-left
+// characters in byte order needs a real browser: tests/e2e/run.js checks it.
+
+globalThis.chrome = {
+    storage: { local: { get: async () => ({}), set: async () => {} } },
+};
+
+const { hexlify, toUtf8Bytes } = require("ethers");
+const { state } = require("../src/shared/state");
+const approval = require("../src/popup/views/approval");
+
+const FROM = "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000a11";
+
+// Built from their code points so that this file holds none of them.
+const RIGHT_TO_LEFT_OVERRIDE = String.fromCodePoint(0x202e);
+const POP_DIRECTIONAL_FORMATTING = String.fromCodePoint(0x202c);
+const ZERO_WIDTH_SPACE = String.fromCodePoint(0x200b);
+const VARIATION_SELECTOR_1 = String.fromCodePoint(0xfe00);
+const VARIATION_SELECTOR_17 = String.fromCodePoint(0xe0100);
+const HANGUL_FILLER = String.fromCodePoint(0x3164);
+const LINE_SEPARATOR = String.fromCodePoint(0x2028);
+const PARAGRAPH_SEPARATOR = String.fromCodePoint(0x2029);
+
+function makeElement(id) {
+    const classes = new Set();
+    return {
+        id,
+        textContent: "",
+        value: "",
+        innerHTML: "",
+        disabled: false,
+        style: {},
+        dataset: {},
+        classList: {
+            add: (...names) => names.forEach((n) => classes.add(n)),
+            remove: (...names) => names.forEach((n) => classes.delete(n)),
+            contains: (n) => classes.has(n),
+            toggle: (n, force) => {
+                const on = force === undefined ? !classes.has(n) : force;
+                if (on) classes.add(n);
+                else classes.delete(n);
+                return on;
+            },
+        },
+        addEventListener: () => {},
+        querySelectorAll: () => [],
+        appendChild: () => {},
+    };
+}
+
+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: () => {} },
+    };
+}
+
+function node(id) {
+    return globalThis.document.getElementById(id);
+}
+
+// Open the signature prompt for a personal_sign of `message`, the way the
+// popup does: it asks the background for the approval and show() draws it.
+async function openPersonalSign(message) {
+    globalThis.document = makeDocument();
+    globalThis.window = { location: { search: "" } };
+    globalThis.chrome.runtime = {
+        connect: () => ({ postMessage: () => {} }),
+        sendMessage: (msg, reply) => {
+            if (!reply) return;
+            if (msg.type !== "AUTISTMASK_GET_APPROVAL") return reply(null);
+            reply({
+                type: "sign",
+                origin: "https://dapp.example",
+                isPhishingDomain: false,
+                approvedFrom: FROM,
+                signParams: { method: "personal_sign", message, from: FROM },
+            });
+        },
+    };
+    approval.init({});
+    await approval.show(1);
+}
+
+// The message box's markup as the text a reader sees: tags dropped.
+function shownMessage() {
+    return node("approve-sign-message").innerHTML.replace(/<[^>]*>/g, "");
+}
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+    state.wallets = [];
+    state.activeAddress = FROM;
+    state.viewData = {};
+    state.viewStack = [];
+    state.currentView = null;
+});
+
+test("a right-to-left override is marked, so the text reads in byte order", async () => {
+    // Obeyed, the override shows "0001" as "1000".
+    const text =
+        "Pay " +
+        RIGHT_TO_LEFT_OVERRIDE +
+        "0001" +
+        POP_DIRECTIONAL_FORMATTING +
+        " ETH";
+    await openPersonalSign(hexlify(toUtf8Bytes(text)));
+    const html = node("approve-sign-message").innerHTML;
+    expect(html).not.toContain(RIGHT_TO_LEFT_OVERRIDE);
+    expect(html).not.toContain(POP_DIRECTIONAL_FORMATTING);
+    expect(shownMessage()).toBe("Pay U+202E0001U+202C ETH");
+});
+
+test("a zero-width character is marked", async () => {
+    await openPersonalSign(
+        hexlify(toUtf8Bytes("pay" + ZERO_WIDTH_SPACE + "pal.com")),
+    );
+    expect(node("approve-sign-message").innerHTML).not.toContain(
+        ZERO_WIDTH_SPACE,
+    );
+    expect(shownMessage()).toBe("payU+200Bpal.com");
+});
+
+test("variation selectors and a Hangul filler are marked", async () => {
+    // Each paints nothing, so a page could hide bytes after "Sign in".
+    await openPersonalSign(
+        hexlify(
+            toUtf8Bytes(
+                "Sign in" +
+                    VARIATION_SELECTOR_1 +
+                    VARIATION_SELECTOR_17 +
+                    HANGUL_FILLER,
+            ),
+        ),
+    );
+    expect(shownMessage()).toBe("Sign inU+FE00U+E0100U+3164");
+});
+
+test("the message is laid out in byte order", async () => {
+    await openPersonalSign(hexlify(toUtf8Bytes("Hello")));
+    expect(
+        node("approve-sign-message").classList.contains("am-byte-order"),
+    ).toBe(true);
+});
+
+test("a control character other than a line feed is marked", async () => {
+    await openPersonalSign(hexlify(toUtf8Bytes("a\u0000b\tc")));
+    expect(shownMessage()).toBe("aU+0000bU+0009c");
+});
+
+test("line and paragraph separators are marked", async () => {
+    // Left in the text, a paragraph separator would end the byte-order
+    // layout for everything after it.
+    await openPersonalSign(
+        hexlify(toUtf8Bytes("a" + LINE_SEPARATOR + "b" + PARAGRAPH_SEPARATOR)),
+    );
+    const html = node("approve-sign-message").innerHTML;
+    expect(html).not.toContain(LINE_SEPARATOR);
+    expect(html).not.toContain(PARAGRAPH_SEPARATOR);
+    expect(shownMessage()).toBe("aU+2028bU+2029");
+});
+
+test("a line feed is shown as a line break", async () => {
+    await openPersonalSign(hexlify(toUtf8Bytes("Sign in\nNonce: 7")));
+    expect(node("approve-sign-message").innerHTML).toBe("Sign in<br>Nonce: 7");
+});
+
+// The message box is written as HTML, so a site's markup has to arrive there
+// escaped, as the text it is.
+const MARKUP = "<b>x</b><img src=x onerror=alert(1)>";
+
+test.each([
+    ["a hex message", hexlify(toUtf8Bytes(MARKUP))],
+    ["a message that is not hex", MARKUP],
+])("markup in %s is shown as text, not as markup", async (_, message) => {
+    await openPersonalSign(message);
+    expect(node("approve-sign-message").innerHTML).toBe(
+        "&lt;b&gt;x&lt;/b&gt;&lt;img src=x onerror=alert(1)&gt;",
+    );
+});
+
+test("the raw hex is shown alongside the text", async () => {
+    await openPersonalSign("0x48656c6c6f");
+    expect(shownMessage()).toBe("Hello");
+    expect(node("approve-sign-hex").textContent).toBe("0x48656c6c6f");
+    expect(node("approve-sign-hex-section").classList.contains("hidden")).toBe(
+        false,
+    );
+});
+
+test("hex with an uppercase 0X is read as hex, as signing reads it", async () => {
+    await openPersonalSign("0X48656C6C6F");
+    expect(shownMessage()).toBe("Hello");
+    expect(node("approve-sign-hex").textContent).toBe("0X48656C6C6F");
+    expect(node("btn-approve-sign").disabled).toBe(false);
+});
+
+test("bytes that are not text are shown only as hex", async () => {
+    await openPersonalSign("0xff00");
+    expect(node("approve-sign-message").textContent).toBe(
+        "This message is not text.",
+    );
+    expect(node("approve-sign-hex").textContent).toBe("0xff00");
+});
+
+test("a message that is not hex is shown as text and cannot be signed", async () => {
+    await openPersonalSign("Hello world");
+    expect(shownMessage()).toBe("Hello world");
+    expect(node("approve-sign-error").textContent).toBe(
+        "This message is plain text, not hex, so it cannot be signed.",
+    );
+    expect(node("btn-approve-sign").disabled).toBe(true);
+    expect(node("approve-sign-hex-section").classList.contains("hidden")).toBe(
+        true,
+    );
+});

tests/stateRecovery.test.js

@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ describe("a popup already open when the stored profile becomes unreadable", () =
         expect(env.visibleViews()).toEqual(["main"]);
 
         env.storage.write("autistmask", CORRUPT_BLOBS[0].blob);
-        await env.refresh();
+        await env.tick();
 
         expect(env.visibleViews()).toEqual(["state-recovery"]);
         expect(env.text("state-recovery-problem").length).toBeGreaterThan(10);
@@ -165,36 +165,131 @@ describe("a popup already open when the stored profile becomes unreadable", () =
         expect(env.storage.read("autistmask")).toEqual(CORRUPT_BLOBS[0].blob);
     });
 
+    test("stops the ten-second refresh", async () => {
+        const env = await bootPopup(unversionedValidProfile());
+        env.storage.write("autistmask", CORRUPT_BLOBS[0].blob);
+        await env.tick();
+        const { refreshBalances } = require("../src/shared/balances");
+        const calls = refreshBalances.mock.calls.length;
+
+        await env.tick();
+
+        expect(refreshBalances).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(calls);
+    });
+
     test("a later save does not clear what the user exported or typed", async () => {
         const env = await bootPopup(unversionedValidProfile());
         env.storage.write("autistmask", CORRUPT_BLOBS[2].blob);
-        await env.refresh();
+        await env.tick();
 
         await env.click("btn-state-recovery-export");
         env.node("state-recovery-reset-input").value = "erase my";
-        // A refresh that was already in flight when the screen went up.
-        await env.refresh();
+        // Such as the save of a refresh already in flight when the screen
+        // went up.
+        const { saveState } = require("../src/shared/state");
+        await expect(saveState()).rejects.toThrow();
+        await env.settle();
 
         expect(env.visibleViews()).toEqual(["state-recovery"]);
         expect(env.hidden("state-recovery-blob")).toBe(false);
         expect(env.value("state-recovery-reset-input")).toBe("erase my");
     });
 
+    test("a transaction wait that ends under it does not replace it", async () => {
+        const env = await bootPopup(
+            unversionedValidProfile({
+                currentView: "wait-tx",
+                viewData: {
+                    pendingWait: {
+                        hash: "0x1",
+                        txInfo: { to: ADDRESS, amount: "1", token: "ETH" },
+                        broadcastTime: Date.now(),
+                    },
+                },
+            }),
+        );
+        expect(env.visibleViews()).toEqual(["wait-tx"]);
+        env.storage.write("autistmask", CORRUPT_BLOBS[2].blob);
+        await env.tick();
+        await env.click("btn-state-recovery-export");
+        env.node("state-recovery-reset-input").value = "erase my";
+
+        // The test provider answers no receipt lookup, and six that fail in
+        // a row end the wait with an error.
+        for (let i = 0; i < 6; i++) await env.tick();
+
+        expect(env.text("error-tx-message")).toMatch(/could not be reached/);
+        expect(env.visibleViews()).toEqual(["state-recovery"]);
+        expect(env.hidden("state-recovery-blob")).toBe(false);
+        expect(env.value("state-recovery-reset-input")).toBe("erase my");
+    });
+
     test("a storage read that fails once leaves the wallet list up", async () => {
         const env = await bootPopup(unversionedValidProfile());
 
         env.storage.local.get.mockRejectedValueOnce(
             new Error("IO error: storage busy"),
         );
-        await env.refresh();
+        await env.tick();
 
         // Reported as a failed save, not mistaken for an unreadable profile.
         expect(env.visibleViews()).toEqual(["main"]);
         expect(env.node("save-failure-banner")).not.toBeNull();
 
-        await env.refresh();
+        await env.tick();
         expect(env.visibleViews()).toEqual(["main"]);
     });
+
+    // The screen it replaces is left as any navigation leaves it: the rules
+    // at the top of src/popup/views/showPhrase.js and exportPrivkey.js hold
+    // for this way off them too.
+    describe("from a screen holding a secret", () => {
+        const PHRASE =
+            "abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon" +
+            " abandon abandon abandon abandon about";
+
+        afterEach(() => jest.dontMock("../src/shared/vault"));
+
+        test("a recovery phrase on screen is wiped", async () => {
+            jest.doMock("../src/shared/vault", () => ({
+                decryptWithPassword: async () => PHRASE,
+            }));
+            const env = await bootPopup(unversionedValidProfile());
+            require("../src/popup/views/showPhrase").show(0);
+            env.node("show-phrase-password").value = "password";
+            await env.click("btn-show-phrase-reveal");
+            expect(env.text("show-phrase-value")).toBe(PHRASE);
+
+            env.storage.write("autistmask", CORRUPT_BLOBS[0].blob);
+            await env.tick();
+
+            expect(env.visibleViews()).toEqual(["state-recovery"]);
+            expect(env.text("show-phrase-value")).toBe("");
+        });
+
+        test("a private key still being decrypted is never written", async () => {
+            let answer;
+            jest.doMock("../src/shared/vault", () => ({
+                decryptWithPassword: () =>
+                    new Promise((resolve) => {
+                        answer = resolve;
+                    }),
+            }));
+            const env = await bootPopup(unversionedValidProfile());
+            require("../src/popup/views/exportPrivkey").show(0, 0);
+            env.node("export-privkey-password").value = "password";
+            const revealing = env.click("btn-export-privkey-confirm");
+
+            env.storage.write("autistmask", CORRUPT_BLOBS[0].blob);
+            await env.tick();
+            expect(env.visibleViews()).toEqual(["state-recovery"]);
+            expect(env.value("export-privkey-password")).toBe("");
+
+            answer(PHRASE);
+            await revealing;
+            expect(env.text("export-privkey-value")).toBe("");
+        });
+    });
 });
 
 describe("an unversioned profile that is perfectly valid", () => {

tests/support/popupBoot.js

@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ jest.doMock("libsodium-wrappers-sumo", () => sodium);
 jest.doMock("qrcode", () => QRCode);
 jest.doMock("ethereum-blockies-base64", () => makeBlockie);
 
+// Taken before any boot replaces them; see bootPopup().
+const realSetInterval = globalThis.setInterval;
+const realClearInterval = globalThis.clearInterval;
+
 const POPUP_HTML = fs.readFileSync(
     path.join(__dirname, "..", "..", "src", "popup", "index.html"),
     "utf8",
@@ -292,13 +296,19 @@ async function bootPopup(stored, options) {
         }),
         addEventListener: () => {},
     };
-    // The 10s refresh loop init() starts would outlive the test, so it is
-    // recorded rather than started, and refresh() below runs it once.
-    const realSetInterval = globalThis.setInterval;
-    const intervals = [];
+    // The ten-second refresh init() starts, and a transaction wait's timers,
+    // would outlive the test. So every interval is recorded rather than
+    // started, clearInterval() removes it as a browser would, and tick() below
+    // runs the ones still set. Put back by cleanupPopup().
+    const intervals = new Map();
+    let lastId = 0;
     globalThis.setInterval = (fn) => {
-        intervals.push(fn);
-        return 0;
+        lastId += 1;
+        intervals.set(lastId, fn);
+        return lastId;
+    };
+    globalThis.clearInterval = (id) => {
+        intervals.delete(id);
     };
 
     require("../../src/popup/index");
@@ -321,8 +331,6 @@ async function bootPopup(stored, options) {
     }
     await settle();
 
-    globalThis.setInterval = realSetInterval;
-
     return {
         storage,
         document,
@@ -342,9 +350,10 @@ async function bootPopup(stored, options) {
             for (const fn of fns) await fn();
             await settle();
         },
-        // One tick of the refresh loop, as if ten seconds had passed.
-        refresh: async () => {
-            for (const fn of intervals) await fn();
+        // Every interval still set runs once: the ten-second refresh, and a
+        // transaction wait's receipt poll and elapsed counter while one runs.
+        tick: async () => {
+            for (const fn of intervals.values()) await fn();
             await settle();
         },
         settle,
@@ -364,6 +373,8 @@ function cleanupPopup() {
     delete globalThis.chrome;
     delete globalThis.document;
     delete globalThis.window;
+    globalThis.setInterval = realSetInterval;
+    globalThis.clearInterval = realClearInterval;
 }
 
 module.exports = {