fix: settle a site approval on the port that carries its teardown (closes #275)

Approve and window.close() left the popup on the next line, and the decision
and the disconnect the close caused travelled independent channels with nothing
ordering them. The disconnect handler settled a pending site approval as a
rejection, so whichever landed first decided the outcome. Driven in a tab the
teardown won every time: the user allowed the connection and the dApp was told
they had refused.

The decision now goes out on the approval port the popup already opens, which
is the same port the close disconnects. One channel is ordered -- a message
posted on a port is delivered before that port's own disconnect -- so the
approval is settled before the teardown is even seen, and the disconnect then
finds nothing pending to reject. Nothing waits, nothing is timed, and the popup
closes exactly as immediately as before.

windows.onRemoved no longer decides a site approval whose port is connected
either. In the fallback-window shape that event races the decision on a channel
of its own, which is the same defect one level over; the port disconnect says
the same thing in a defined order, so it is left to say it. A window that
closes before its popup ever connected has nothing else to speak for it and is
still rejected there, so no dApp is left waiting on a window that is gone.

Rejecting reports a rejection, and so does closing without deciding, in both
shapes. AUTISTMASK_APPROVAL_RESPONSE is gone; the port name carries the
approval id, so the popup no longer names one, and the sender check the message
carried moved to the port.

tests/backgroundApproval.test.js drives decide-then-disconnect with nothing
awaited in between, in the toolbar-popup shape that production uses and in the
fallback-window shape, and asserts every close-without-deciding path still
rejects. tests/e2e/run.js drops the deferred-window.close() accommodation it
carried for this bug, so the two site-prompt tests now drive the shipped
decide-then-close in a real Chromium.

README.md

@@ -638,6 +638,21 @@ ExportPrivKey and ShowRecoveryPhrase — are deliberately absent from that list,
 so the popup can never reopen onto one of them with no password prompt in front
 of it.
 
+A reopened popup renders the wallet list and the one screen it restores onto,
+and nothing else, so every screen on the stack behind that one is still the
+blank template from `index.html`. "Back" therefore renders its target rather
+than only unhiding it, through the same dispatch and data guards as the restore
+(`src/popup/viewRouter.js`), and falls back to Home when the state the target
+would render is gone.
+
+It renders only a screen this page load has not rendered yet. Forward navigation
+renders as it goes, and `viewRouter.js` records every screen that reaches
+`showView()`, so "Back" onto a screen already on the page unhides it and nothing
+more — rendering it a second time would re-fetch and overwrite what it holds,
+such as an edit typed into Settings and not yet saved. Home is the one screen
+"Back" always re-renders, so the wallet list reflects anything that changed
+while the user was away from it.
+
 Every screen that holds secret material in the page registers a cleanup with
 `onViewLeave()` (`src/popup/views/helpers.js`), which `showView()` runs on every
 exit from that screen rather than only on its "Back" button, so nothing secret

TODO.md

@@ -45,6 +45,49 @@ undefined identifiers, which is how
 
 # Completed Steps
 
+- 2026-08-14: Approving a site connection is no longer a race against the popup
+  closing. The decision now rides the approval port the popup already holds,
+  which is the same channel the close disconnects, so it is delivered ahead of
+  that disconnect however fast the teardown is; `windows.onRemoved` no longer
+  decides a site approval whose port is connected, since that event is ordered
+  against nothing either. Rejecting and closing without deciding both still
+  report a rejection, and the popup delays its own close by nothing. The e2e
+  harness's deferred-`window.close()` accommodation is gone with it, so the two
+  site-prompt tests now drive the shipped decide-then-close in a real Chromium;
+  against the unfixed code the approval came back to the page as
+  `{"settled":"rejected","code":4001}`
+  ([#275](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/AutistMask/issues/275)).
+- 2026-08-12: EIP-1193 error codes now reach the page. `src/content/inpage.js`
+  rebuilt every failure as `new Error(error.message)`, so the code the
+  background produced and the content script relayed intact was dropped in the
+  last hop and a dApp checking `err.code === 4001` saw `undefined` — a wallet
+  the user deliberately declined was indistinguishable from one that broke. The
+  provider now rejects with a `ProviderRpcError` carrying `code` and, where the
+  boundary sent one, `data`, passed through verbatim rather than matched against
+  a list, so 4001, 4100 and 4902 all arrive and a future code needs no edit
+  here. An error the background sent with no code stays a plain `Error` with no
+  `code` property, and `message` is unchanged in every case. All four request
+  entry points (`request`, `enable`, `send`, `sendAsync`) are covered by
+  `tests/inpageErrors.test.js`, and the e2e probe that printed the missing code
+  now requires it on the page's Error as well as on the wire, for all four
+  rejected flows ([#274](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/AutistMask/issues/274)).
+- 2026-08-12: "Back" now renders the screen it lands on instead of only unhiding
+  it. A reopened popup renders the wallet list and the one screen it restores
+  onto, so every screen further down the stack was still the blank template from
+  `index.html`, and Back walked straight onto it — an empty address, no
+  balances, no QR code. The Back path now goes through the same per-view
+  dispatch and data guards as the restore (`src/popup/viewRouter.js`, shared
+  with `restoreView()`), falling back to Home when the state the target would
+  render is gone. It renders only a view this page load has not rendered yet:
+  `viewRouter.js` records every view that reaches `showView()`, which is where
+  forward navigation and the restore both end, so Back onto a view already on
+  the page unhides it and nothing more. That is what keeps a second render from
+  re-fetching and overwriting what the view holds — an unsaved edit in Settings,
+  a transaction list already loaded. Home is the exception and is always
+  re-rendered, as it was before. Covered by unit tests on the real `goBack()`
+  and by three end-to-end cases against the real popup, each demonstrated
+  failing on the unfixed build
+  ([#268](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/AutistMask/issues/268)).
 - 2026-08-12: `KNOWN_SYMBOLS` now maps a symbol to the set of contract addresses
   that bear it, not to one of them. A ticker is not unique: seven of the 512
   bundled tokens — `FRAX`, `REUSD`, `TON`, `EURE`, `MSUSD`, `MUSD` and `JPYC` —

src/background/index.js

@@ -279,13 +279,50 @@ function requestSignApproval(origin, hostname, signParams, approvedFrom) {
     });
 }
 
-// Detect when an approval popup (browser-action) closes without a response.
-// TX and sign approvals now use windows.create() and are handled by the
-// windowsApi.onRemoved listener below, but we still handle site-connection
-// approval disconnects here.
+// Anything only the extension's own pages may say. A content script speaks
+// with the page's URL, so this is what separates the popup from the site the
+// popup is being asked about.
+function isExtensionSender(sender) {
+    const extUrl = runtime.getURL("");
+    return !!(sender && sender.url && sender.url.startsWith(extUrl));
+}
+
+// The approval popup's port: it carries the user's decision on a
+// site-connection approval, and its disconnect is how that approval learns the
+// popup closed without one.
+//
+// The decision travels this port rather than a one-off runtime.sendMessage()
+// for exactly one reason: the port is also what the popup's window.close()
+// disconnects. A message posted on a port is delivered before that port's
+// disconnect, so approve-then-close settles as an approval no matter how fast
+// the teardown is. Sent as a one-off message the two crossed on independent
+// channels with nothing ordering them, and the teardown won every time when
+// the prompt was driven in a tab: the user approved and the dApp was told they
+// had refused.
+//
+// TX and sign approvals do not decide here. They stay pending across a
+// disconnect — the user can reopen the toolbar popup — and are rejected by the
+// windowsApi.onRemoved listener below.
 runtime.onConnect.addListener((port) => {
     if (port.name.startsWith("approval:")) {
         const id = port.name.split(":")[1];
+        if (pendingApprovals[id]) {
+            // This approval has a popup that can speak for it, so its
+            // disconnect is a trustworthy "closed"; see onRemoved below.
+            pendingApprovals[id].portConnected = true;
+        }
+        port.onMessage.addListener((msg) => {
+            if (!msg || msg.type !== "AUTISTMASK_APPROVAL_DECISION") return;
+            if (!isExtensionSender(port.sender)) return;
+            const approval = pendingApprovals[id];
+            if (!approval || approval.type === "tx" || approval.type === "sign")
+                return;
+            settleApproval(id, {
+                approved: !!msg.approved,
+                remember: !!msg.remember,
+            });
+            resetPopupUrl();
+        });
         port.onDisconnect.addListener(() => {
             const approval = pendingApprovals[id];
             if (approval) {
@@ -832,20 +869,32 @@ startBackgroundJobs();
 // window is an ordinary event with an attempt already in flight behind it.
 // settleApproval() refuses those, which leaves the attempt to report its real
 // outcome to the page.
+//
+// A site-connection approval whose popup connected its port is not decided
+// here. That popup approves and closes in the same breath, and this event
+// races the decision on a channel of its own — the same race the port exists
+// to end. Its port disconnect says the same thing this event does, in an order
+// that is defined, so the disconnect is left to say it. The window closing
+// before any port connected is the one case with nothing else to speak for it,
+// and is rejected here so the dApp is not left waiting on a window that is
+// gone.
 if (windowsApi && windowsApi.onRemoved) {
     windowsApi.onRemoved.addListener((windowId) => {
         for (const [id, approval] of Object.entries(pendingApprovals)) {
             if (approval.windowId !== windowId) continue;
-            const rejection =
-                approval.type === "tx" || approval.type === "sign"
-                    ? {
+            const isSite = approval.type !== "tx" && approval.type !== "sign";
+            if (isSite && approval.portConnected) continue;
+            settleApproval(
+                id,
+                isSite
+                    ? { approved: false, remember: false }
+                    : {
                           error: {
                               code: 4001,
                               message: "User rejected the request.",
                           },
-                      }
-                    : { approved: false, remember: false };
-            settleApproval(id, rejection);
+                      },
+            );
         }
     });
 }
@@ -872,18 +921,16 @@ runtime.onMessage.addListener((msg, sender, sendResponse) => {
     }
 
     // Validate that popup-only messages originate from the extension itself.
+    // The site-connection decision is not here: it is a port message, and it
+    // is checked the same way where the port is served.
     const POPUP_ONLY_TYPES = [
         "AUTISTMASK_GET_APPROVAL",
-        "AUTISTMASK_APPROVAL_RESPONSE",
         "AUTISTMASK_TX_RESPONSE",
         "AUTISTMASK_SIGN_RESPONSE",
     ];
-    if (POPUP_ONLY_TYPES.includes(msg.type)) {
-        const extUrl = runtime.getURL("");
-        if (!sender.url || !sender.url.startsWith(extUrl)) {
-            sendResponse({ error: "Unauthorized sender" });
-            return false;
-        }
+    if (POPUP_ONLY_TYPES.includes(msg.type) && !isExtensionSender(sender)) {
+        sendResponse({ error: "Unauthorized sender" });
+        return false;
     }
 
     if (msg.type === "AUTISTMASK_GET_APPROVAL") {
@@ -915,15 +962,6 @@ runtime.onMessage.addListener((msg, sender, sendResponse) => {
         return false;
     }
 
-    if (msg.type === "AUTISTMASK_APPROVAL_RESPONSE") {
-        settleApproval(msg.id, {
-            approved: msg.approved,
-            remember: msg.remember,
-        });
-        resetPopupUrl();
-        return false;
-    }
-
     if (msg.type === "AUTISTMASK_TX_RESPONSE") {
         const approval = pendingApprovals[msg.id];
         if (!approval) return false;

src/content/inpage.js

@@ -11,6 +11,39 @@
     let nextId = 1;
     const pending = {};
 
+    // EIP-1193 ProviderRpcError: `code`, `message`, optional `data`. A class
+    // rather than properties bolted onto an Error because this object crosses
+    // no boundary after construction — it is built in the page's own realm and
+    // handed straight to the caller's catch — so the prototype survives and
+    // `error.name` is a stable thing for a dApp to see.
+    class ProviderRpcError extends Error {
+        constructor(code, message, data) {
+            super(message);
+            this.name = "ProviderRpcError";
+            this.code = code;
+            if (data !== undefined) this.data = data;
+        }
+    }
+
+    // Rebuild a boundary error as the error the page catches, carrying the
+    // code (and data) the extension reported. Without this a dApp cannot tell
+    // a user's refusal (4001) from a wallet that broke, and retries or shows
+    // an error instead of accepting the refusal.
+    //
+    // Whatever code arrived is passed through verbatim rather than being
+    // matched against a list: the extension emits 4001, 4100 and 4902 today,
+    // and a code this file has never heard of is still the truth about what
+    // happened. An error reported with no code at all stays a plain Error —
+    // a ProviderRpcError whose `code` is undefined would advertise a
+    // conformance it does not have. `message` is untouched in every case.
+    function toPageError(error) {
+        const message = (error && error.message) || "Request failed";
+        if (error && error.code !== undefined && error.code !== null) {
+            return new ProviderRpcError(error.code, message, error.data);
+        }
+        return new Error(message);
+    }
+
     // Listen for responses from the content script
     window.addEventListener("message", function onUuid(event) {
         if (event.source !== window) return;
@@ -20,7 +53,7 @@
         if (!p) return;
         delete pending[id];
         if (error) {
-            p.reject(new Error(error.message || "Request failed"));
+            p.reject(toPageError(error));
         } else {
             p.resolve(result);
         }

src/popup/index.js

@@ -9,16 +9,17 @@ const {
     $,
     showView,
     updateDebugBanner,
-    setRenderMain,
+    setBackRenderer,
     pushCurrentView,
     goBack,
     clearViewStack,
 } = require("./views/helpers");
 const { applyTheme } = require("./theme");
-// Views that can be fully re-rendered from persisted state. All others fall
-// back to the nearest restorable parent; see the module for why the
-// secret-bearing views are absent.
-const { RESTORABLE_VIEWS } = require("./restorableViews");
+// Renders a view the popup lands on without having navigated to it forward:
+// on restore here, and on Back. Only the views that can be fully re-rendered
+// from persisted state (RESTORABLE_VIEWS, src/popup/restorableViews.js) go
+// through it; anything else falls back to the nearest restorable parent.
+const { renderView, makeBackRenderer } = require("./viewRouter");
 
 const home = require("./views/home");
 const welcome = require("./views/welcome");
@@ -108,91 +109,22 @@ const ctx = {
     },
 };
 
-function needsAddress(view) {
-    return (
-        view === "address" ||
-        view === "address-token" ||
-        view === "receive" ||
-        view === "transaction"
-    );
-}
-
-function hasValidAddress() {
-    return (
-        state.selectedWallet !== null &&
-        state.selectedAddress !== null &&
-        state.wallets[state.selectedWallet] &&
-        state.wallets[state.selectedWallet].addresses[state.selectedAddress]
-    );
-}
+// The view modules the router renders through, keyed as it expects them.
+const viewModules = {
+    main: { show: () => fallbackView() },
+    addressDetail,
+    addressToken,
+    receive,
+    settings,
+    settingsAddToken,
+    confirmTx,
+    transactionDetail,
+    txStatus,
+};
 
 function restoreView() {
-    const view = state.currentView;
-    if (!view || !RESTORABLE_VIEWS.has(view)) {
-        return fallbackView();
-    }
-
-    if (needsAddress(view) && !hasValidAddress()) {
-        return fallbackView();
-    }
-
-    if (view === "address-token" && !state.selectedToken) {
-        return fallbackView();
-    }
-
-    switch (view) {
-        case "address":
-            addressDetail.show();
-            break;
-        case "address-token":
-            addressToken.show();
-            break;
-        case "receive":
-            receive.show();
-            break;
-        case "settings":
-            settings.show();
-            break;
-        case "settings-addtoken":
-            settingsAddToken.show();
-            break;
-        case "confirm-tx":
-            if (state.viewData && state.viewData.pendingTx) {
-                confirmTx.restore();
-            } else {
-                fallbackView();
-            }
-            break;
-        case "transaction":
-            if (state.viewData && state.viewData.tx) {
-                transactionDetail.render();
-            } else {
-                fallbackView();
-            }
-            break;
-        case "wait-tx":
-            // Resumes the receipt poll from the persisted broadcast time.
-            if (!txStatus.restoreWait()) {
-                fallbackView();
-            }
-            break;
-        case "success-tx":
-            if (state.viewData && state.viewData.hash) {
-                txStatus.renderSuccess();
-            } else {
-                fallbackView();
-            }
-            break;
-        case "error-tx":
-            if (state.viewData && state.viewData.message) {
-                txStatus.renderError();
-            } else {
-                fallbackView();
-            }
-            break;
-        default:
-            fallbackView();
-            break;
+    if (!renderView(state.currentView, state, viewModules)) {
+        fallbackView();
     }
 }
 
@@ -247,7 +179,7 @@ async function init() {
         settings.show();
     });
 
-    setRenderMain(renderWalletList);
+    setBackRenderer(makeBackRenderer(state, viewModules));
 
     welcome.init(ctx);
     addWallet.init(ctx);

src/popup/viewRouter.js

@@ -0,0 +1,167 @@
+// Rendering a view the popup lands on without having navigated to it
+// forward: on restore, and on Back. In both cases the view may never have
+// been rendered in this page load — a reopened popup renders only the
+// wallet list and the view it restores onto, so every other view is still
+// the blank static template from index.html — so unhiding it is not enough.
+//
+// Forward navigation renders as it goes and must NOT come through here:
+// rendering a second time would re-fetch and clobber whatever the view has
+// in flight.
+//
+// The view modules are injected and nothing here touches the DOM, so the
+// dispatch and its data guards can be tested directly; src/popup/index.js
+// cannot be required outside a browser.
+
+const { RESTORABLE_VIEWS } = require("./restorableViews");
+
+// The views this page load has rendered.
+//
+// The Back path cannot otherwise tell its two cases apart. A view the popup
+// never rendered is still the blank template from index.html and has to be
+// rendered; a view already on the page must NOT be rendered again, because
+// a second render re-fetches and overwrites whatever the user has typed
+// into it and not yet saved.
+//
+// Registration is showView() in views/helpers.js, which is the last thing
+// every render path runs — restoreView()'s, the Back path's, and every
+// forward show(). That is the point of putting it there rather than in the
+// individual views: a view added later registers itself with no one having
+// to remember it, so this cannot decay.
+//
+// Module scope is page-load scope: the popup loads this module once per
+// page load, and a reopened popup gets a fresh, empty set — which is
+// exactly the state that makes the Back path render.
+const renderedViews = new Set();
+
+function markViewRendered(view) {
+    if (view) renderedViews.add(view);
+}
+
+// Begin a fresh page-load scope. The popup gets one by being loaded; the
+// unit tests, which simulate several page loads against one module
+// instance, ask for one.
+function resetRenderedViews() {
+    renderedViews.clear();
+}
+
+// Home is the exception: Back re-renders it every time, which is what the
+// popup did before this router existed (index.js registered
+// renderWalletList() as setRenderMain(), and goBack() called it on every
+// Back onto "main"). It must stay that way — the wallet list has to reflect
+// what changed while the user was away from it, such as a wallet renamed or
+// an address removed in Settings — and Home holds no unsaved input to lose.
+const ALWAYS_RENDER_ON_BACK = new Set(["main"]);
+
+// Views that render an address the user picked and cannot be rendered
+// without one.
+const ADDRESS_VIEWS = new Set([
+    "address",
+    "address-token",
+    "receive",
+    "transaction",
+]);
+
+function needsAddress(view) {
+    return ADDRESS_VIEWS.has(view);
+}
+
+function hasValidAddress(state) {
+    return Boolean(
+        state.selectedWallet !== null &&
+        state.selectedAddress !== null &&
+        state.wallets[state.selectedWallet] &&
+        state.wallets[state.selectedWallet].addresses[state.selectedAddress],
+    );
+}
+
+// Render `view` from persisted state. Each view module shows itself, so a
+// true return means the view is both rendered and on screen.
+//
+// Returns false when the view is not one the popup renders from state, or
+// when the state it would render is gone — a token no longer selected, a
+// transaction no longer persisted. The caller falls back rather than
+// putting an empty template on screen.
+function renderView(view, state, views) {
+    if (!view || !RESTORABLE_VIEWS.has(view)) return false;
+    if (needsAddress(view) && !hasValidAddress(state)) return false;
+    if (view === "address-token" && !state.selectedToken) return false;
+
+    const data = state.viewData || {};
+    switch (view) {
+        case "main":
+            views.main.show();
+            return true;
+        case "address":
+            views.addressDetail.show();
+            return true;
+        case "address-token":
+            views.addressToken.show();
+            return true;
+        case "receive":
+            views.receive.show();
+            return true;
+        case "settings":
+            views.settings.show();
+            return true;
+        case "settings-addtoken":
+            views.settingsAddToken.show();
+            return true;
+        case "confirm-tx":
+            if (!data.pendingTx) return false;
+            views.confirmTx.restore();
+            return true;
+        case "transaction":
+            if (!data.tx) return false;
+            views.transactionDetail.render();
+            return true;
+        case "wait-tx":
+            // Resumes the receipt poll from the persisted broadcast time,
+            // and answers false when there is nothing resumable left.
+            return Boolean(views.txStatus.restoreWait());
+        case "success-tx":
+            if (!data.hash) return false;
+            views.txStatus.renderSuccess();
+            return true;
+        case "error-tx":
+            if (!data.message) return false;
+            views.txStatus.renderError();
+            return true;
+        default:
+            return false;
+    }
+}
+
+// The Back-path renderer, registered with setBackRenderer() in
+// views/helpers.js.
+//
+// Returns false — leaving goBack() to unhide the view, as it always did —
+// in the two cases where the view is known to be on the page already:
+//
+//   - It is not one the popup renders from persisted state. The restored
+//     stack is filtered against RESTORABLE_VIEWS, so such a view can only
+//     be on the stack from this page load, where forward navigation
+//     rendered it on the way in.
+//   - This page load has rendered it. Re-rendering would re-fetch and
+//     clobber what it holds; Home is rendered anyway, see above.
+//
+// What is left is the case the router exists for: a view on the stack that
+// this page load has never rendered, whose template is still blank.
+function makeBackRenderer(state, views) {
+    return function renderBack(view) {
+        if (!RESTORABLE_VIEWS.has(view)) return false;
+        if (renderedViews.has(view) && !ALWAYS_RENDER_ON_BACK.has(view)) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        if (!renderView(view, state, views)) {
+            views.main.show();
+        }
+        return true;
+    };
+}
+
+module.exports = {
+    renderView,
+    makeBackRenderer,
+    markViewRendered,
+    resetRenderedViews,
+};

src/popup/views/approval.js

@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ function showSignApproval(details) {
 
 function show(id) {
     approvalId = id;
-    runtime.connect({ name: "approval:" + id });
+    approvalPort = runtime.connect({ name: "approval:" + id });
     runtime.sendMessage({ type: "AUTISTMASK_GET_APPROVAL", id }, (details) => {
         if (!details) {
             window.close();
@@ -470,6 +470,14 @@ function show(id) {
 }
 
 let approvalId = null;
+// The port this approval was opened on. Closing this window disconnects it,
+// and the background treats that disconnect as "closed without deciding" for a
+// site connection — so the decision goes out on this same port and not as a
+// one-off message. One channel is ordered: a message posted on it is delivered
+// before its own disconnect, however immediately the close follows. Two
+// channels were not, and the close won, reporting a user who approved as
+// having refused.
+let approvalPort = null;
 let pendingTxDetails = null;
 // The exact objects shown to the user, kept so the popup signs what it
 // displayed rather than re-fetching or re-populating anything at approval
@@ -537,6 +545,20 @@ function clearSignPassword() {
     hideError("approve-sign-error");
 }
 
+// Answer a site-connection approval and close. The decision goes out on the
+// approval port — see approvalPort above for why — and carries no approval id,
+// because the port name already names the approval the background will settle.
+function decideSite(approved) {
+    if (approvalPort) {
+        approvalPort.postMessage({
+            type: "AUTISTMASK_APPROVAL_DECISION",
+            approved,
+            remember: $("approve-remember").checked,
+        });
+    }
+    window.close();
+}
+
 function init(ctx) {
     onViewLeave("approve-tx", clearTxPassword);
     onViewLeave("approve-sign", clearSignPassword);
@@ -547,25 +569,11 @@ function init(ctx) {
     });
 
     $("btn-approve").addEventListener("click", () => {
-        const remember = $("approve-remember").checked;
-        runtime.sendMessage({
-            type: "AUTISTMASK_APPROVAL_RESPONSE",
-            id: approvalId,
-            approved: true,
-            remember,
-        });
-        window.close();
+        decideSite(true);
     });
 
     $("btn-reject").addEventListener("click", () => {
-        const remember = $("approve-remember").checked;
-        runtime.sendMessage({
-            type: "AUTISTMASK_APPROVAL_RESPONSE",
-            id: approvalId,
-            approved: false,
-            remember,
-        });
-        window.close();
+        decideSite(false);
     });
 
     $("btn-approve-tx").addEventListener("click", async () => {

src/popup/views/helpers.js

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ const {
     getAddressValueUsd,
 } = require("../../shared/prices");
 const { state, saveState, currentNetwork } = require("../../shared/state");
+const { markViewRendered } = require("../viewRouter");
 
 // When views are added, removed, or transitions between them change,
 // update the view-navigation documentation in README.md to match.
@@ -76,6 +77,10 @@ function showView(name) {
     }
     clearFlash();
     state.currentView = name;
+    // A view's show() ends here, so this is where the Back path learns the
+    // view is no longer the blank template from index.html and must not be
+    // rendered a second time. See viewRouter.js.
+    markViewRendered(name);
     saveState();
     updateDebugBanner(name);
 }
@@ -111,12 +116,19 @@ function updateDebugBanner(viewName) {
     }
 }
 
-// Callback to re-render the main/home view when navigating back to it.
-// Set once by index.js via setRenderMain().
-let _renderMain = null;
+// Callback that renders a view being navigated BACK onto. Set once by
+// index.js via setBackRenderer(), which routes the view through the same
+// per-view render and data guards restoreView() uses.
+//
+// It answers true when it took the navigation — the view is rendered and
+// shown, or its backing data was gone and it fell back — and false for a
+// view the popup does not render from persisted state. Those can only be
+// on the stack from this page load, because the stack is filtered on load,
+// so they have already been rendered and only need unhiding.
+let _renderBack = null;
 
-function setRenderMain(fn) {
-    _renderMain = fn;
+function setBackRenderer(fn) {
+    _renderBack = fn;
 }
 
 // Push the current view onto the navigation stack so goBack() can
@@ -136,9 +148,11 @@ function goBack() {
     } else {
         target = "main";
     }
-    if (target === "main" && _renderMain) {
-        _renderMain();
-    }
+    // A popped view is landed on, not navigated to. If the popup has been
+    // closed and reopened since the view was pushed, nothing has ever
+    // rendered it in this page load and its template is still blank, so it
+    // has to be rendered here rather than merely unhidden.
+    if (_renderBack && _renderBack(target)) return;
     showView(target);
 }
 
@@ -470,7 +484,7 @@ module.exports = {
     showView,
     onViewLeave,
     updateDebugBanner,
-    setRenderMain,
+    setBackRenderer,
     pushCurrentView,
     goBack,
     clearViewStack,

tests/backNavigation.test.js

@@ -0,0 +1,329 @@
+// Back after reopening the popup (#268).
+//
+// A reopened popup renders the wallet list and the one view it restores
+// onto; every other view is still the blank static template from
+// index.html. goBack() used to only unhide its target, so Back landed on
+// that blank template for any view the popup had not rendered in this page
+// load. These tests drive the real goBack() with the real router wired to
+// recording view modules, so what is asserted is which view render ran —
+// the thing that was missing.
+//
+// The rendering itself is asserted against the real popup in a real
+// browser by tests/e2e/run.js; here the DOM is a stub, because goBack()
+// only needs showView() to work.
+
+const els = new Map();
+
+function fakeEl() {
+    return {
+        textContent: "",
+        innerHTML: "",
+        classList: {
+            toggle() {},
+            add() {},
+            remove() {},
+            contains: () => false,
+        },
+        remove() {},
+    };
+}
+
+globalThis.document = {
+    getElementById(id) {
+        if (!els.has(id)) els.set(id, fakeEl());
+        return els.get(id);
+    },
+};
+
+// helpers.js pulls in state.js, which reads chrome.storage.local at load.
+globalThis.chrome = {
+    storage: { local: { get: async () => ({}), set: async () => {} } },
+};
+
+const {
+    showView,
+    goBack,
+    setBackRenderer,
+    pushCurrentView,
+} = require("../src/popup/views/helpers");
+const {
+    makeBackRenderer,
+    markViewRendered,
+    resetRenderedViews,
+} = require("../src/popup/viewRouter");
+const { state } = require("../src/shared/state");
+
+const ADDRESS = "0x1111111111111111111111111111111111111111";
+const TOKEN = "0xa0b86991c6218b36c1d19d4a2e9eb0ce3606eb48";
+
+let calls;
+
+// Stand-ins for the view modules. Each records itself and then shows its
+// view, which is what every real view render ends with — so the assertions
+// can tell "rendered and shown" apart from "merely unhidden".
+function recorder(name, view) {
+    return () => {
+        calls.push(name);
+        showView(view);
+    };
+}
+
+function makeViews() {
+    return {
+        main: { show: recorder("main", "main") },
+        addressDetail: { show: recorder("addressDetail", "address") },
+        addressToken: { show: recorder("addressToken", "address-token") },
+        receive: { show: recorder("receive", "receive") },
+        settings: { show: recorder("settings", "settings") },
+        settingsAddToken: {
+            show: recorder("settingsAddToken", "settings-addtoken"),
+        },
+        confirmTx: { restore: recorder("confirmTx", "confirm-tx") },
+        transactionDetail: {
+            render: recorder("transactionDetail", "transaction"),
+        },
+        txStatus: {
+            restoreWait: () => {
+                calls.push("waitTx");
+                showView("wait-tx");
+                return true;
+            },
+            renderSuccess: recorder("successTx", "success-tx"),
+            renderError: recorder("errorTx", "error-tx"),
+        },
+    };
+}
+
+// The popup as it stands just after a reopen: one wallet with one address,
+// the view the popup restored onto, and the stack behind it.
+//
+// A reopen is a fresh page load, so the record of what has been rendered
+// starts empty — that emptiness is what makes the Back path render at all.
+// Returns the view modules so a test can drive forward navigation through
+// the same recorders the router renders through.
+function reopenedOn(view, stack, extra) {
+    calls = [];
+    resetRenderedViews();
+    state.wallets = [
+        {
+            name: "Wallet 1",
+            addresses: [{ address: ADDRESS, balance: "0", tokenBalances: [] }],
+        },
+    ];
+    state.selectedWallet = 0;
+    state.selectedAddress = 0;
+    state.selectedToken = null;
+    state.viewData = null;
+    state.currentView = view;
+    state.viewStack = stack.slice();
+    Object.assign(state, extra || {});
+    // Restoring onto a view renders it, so the reopened popup has that one
+    // view on the page and nothing else.
+    markViewRendered(view);
+    const views = makeViews();
+    setBackRenderer(makeBackRenderer(state, views));
+    return views;
+}
+
+// The reproduction from the issue, step for step.
+describe("Back onto a view the reopened popup never rendered", () => {
+    test("Back from settings renders the address detail underneath", () => {
+        reopenedOn("settings", ["main", "address"]);
+        goBack();
+        expect(calls).toEqual(["addressDetail"]);
+        expect(state.currentView).toBe("address");
+        expect(state.viewStack).toEqual(["main"]);
+    });
+
+    test("Back onto the token detail renders it", () => {
+        reopenedOn("settings", ["main", "address", "address-token"], {
+            selectedToken: TOKEN,
+        });
+        goBack();
+        expect(calls).toEqual(["addressToken"]);
+        expect(state.currentView).toBe("address-token");
+    });
+
+    test("Back onto Receive renders it", () => {
+        reopenedOn("settings", ["main", "address", "receive"]);
+        goBack();
+        expect(calls).toEqual(["receive"]);
+        expect(state.currentView).toBe("receive");
+    });
+
+    test("Back onto the transaction detail renders it", () => {
+        reopenedOn("settings", ["main", "transaction"], {
+            viewData: { tx: { hash: "0xdead" } },
+        });
+        goBack();
+        expect(calls).toEqual(["transactionDetail"]);
+        expect(state.currentView).toBe("transaction");
+    });
+
+    test("Back onto the transaction confirmation restores it", () => {
+        reopenedOn("settings", ["main", "confirm-tx"], {
+            viewData: { pendingTx: { to: ADDRESS, amount: "1" } },
+        });
+        goBack();
+        expect(calls).toEqual(["confirmTx"]);
+        expect(state.currentView).toBe("confirm-tx");
+    });
+
+    test("Back onto the success screen renders it", () => {
+        reopenedOn("settings", ["main", "success-tx"], {
+            viewData: { hash: "0xdead" },
+        });
+        goBack();
+        expect(calls).toEqual(["successTx"]);
+        expect(state.currentView).toBe("success-tx");
+    });
+
+    test("Back onto the failure screen renders it", () => {
+        reopenedOn("settings", ["main", "error-tx"], {
+            viewData: { message: "execution reverted" },
+        });
+        goBack();
+        expect(calls).toEqual(["errorTx"]);
+        expect(state.currentView).toBe("error-tx");
+    });
+
+    test("Back onto Home renders the wallet list", () => {
+        reopenedOn("settings", ["main"]);
+        goBack();
+        expect(calls).toEqual(["main"]);
+        expect(state.currentView).toBe("main");
+    });
+
+    test("Back with an empty stack renders Home", () => {
+        reopenedOn("settings", []);
+        goBack();
+        expect(calls).toEqual(["main"]);
+        expect(state.currentView).toBe("main");
+    });
+});
+
+// The guards are restoreView()'s, so a popped view whose backing data is
+// gone lands on Home rather than on an empty template.
+describe("Back onto a view whose backing data is gone", () => {
+    test("the token detail with no token selected falls back to Home", () => {
+        reopenedOn("settings", ["main", "address-token"]);
+        goBack();
+        expect(calls).toEqual(["main"]);
+        expect(state.currentView).toBe("main");
+    });
+
+    test("the transaction detail with no transaction falls back to Home", () => {
+        reopenedOn("settings", ["main", "transaction"]);
+        goBack();
+        expect(calls).toEqual(["main"]);
+        expect(state.currentView).toBe("main");
+    });
+
+    test("the confirmation with no pending transaction falls back to Home", () => {
+        reopenedOn("settings", ["main", "confirm-tx"]);
+        goBack();
+        expect(calls).toEqual(["main"]);
+        expect(state.currentView).toBe("main");
+    });
+
+    test("an address view with no address selected falls back to Home", () => {
+        reopenedOn("settings", ["main", "receive"], {
+            selectedAddress: null,
+        });
+        goBack();
+        expect(calls).toEqual(["main"]);
+        expect(state.currentView).toBe("main");
+    });
+
+    test("the success screen with no transaction hash falls back to Home", () => {
+        reopenedOn("settings", ["main", "success-tx"]);
+        goBack();
+        expect(calls).toEqual(["main"]);
+        expect(state.currentView).toBe("main");
+    });
+
+    test("the failure screen with no message falls back to Home", () => {
+        reopenedOn("settings", ["main", "error-tx"]);
+        goBack();
+        expect(calls).toEqual(["main"]);
+        expect(state.currentView).toBe("main");
+    });
+
+    test("a wait that can no longer be resumed falls back to Home", () => {
+        reopenedOn("settings", ["main", "wait-tx"]);
+        const views = makeViews();
+        views.txStatus.restoreWait = () => false;
+        setBackRenderer(makeBackRenderer(state, views));
+        goBack();
+        expect(calls).toEqual(["main"]);
+        expect(state.currentView).toBe("main");
+    });
+});
+
+// Forward navigation renders as it goes, and a second render would re-fetch
+// and clobber whatever the view holds — an unsaved edit, a request in
+// flight. So the Back path renders only a view this page load has never
+// rendered, and merely unhides every other one: the views it does not
+// render from persisted state, and the views already on the page.
+describe("what the Back path leaves alone", () => {
+    test("forward navigation renders nothing by itself", () => {
+        reopenedOn("address", ["main"]);
+        pushCurrentView();
+        showView("send");
+        expect(calls).toEqual([]);
+        expect(state.viewStack).toEqual(["main", "address"]);
+    });
+
+    test("Back onto a live-session view only unhides it", () => {
+        reopenedOn("confirm-tx", ["main", "address", "send"]);
+        goBack();
+        expect(calls).toEqual([]);
+        expect(state.currentView).toBe("send");
+    });
+
+    test("Back renders its target exactly once", () => {
+        reopenedOn("settings", ["main", "address"]);
+        goBack();
+        expect(calls.filter((c) => c === "addressDetail")).toHaveLength(1);
+    });
+
+    test("Back onto a view this page load already rendered only unhides it", () => {
+        const views = reopenedOn("main", []);
+        pushCurrentView();
+        views.addressDetail.show();
+        pushCurrentView();
+        views.settings.show();
+        calls = [];
+        goBack();
+        expect(calls).toEqual([]);
+        expect(state.currentView).toBe("address");
+    });
+
+    // The unit mirror of the regression the browser suite pins: Settings
+    // reassigns its fields from persisted state on every render, so a
+    // re-render on the way back discards an edit the user has not saved.
+    test("Back onto Settings visited earlier in this page load does not re-render it", () => {
+        const views = reopenedOn("main", []);
+        pushCurrentView();
+        views.settings.show();
+        pushCurrentView();
+        views.settingsAddToken.show();
+        calls = [];
+        goBack();
+        expect(calls).toEqual([]);
+        expect(state.currentView).toBe("settings");
+    });
+
+    // Home is the deliberate exception, unchanged from the popup's
+    // behaviour before the router existed: it re-renders on every Back so
+    // the wallet list reflects what changed while the user was away.
+    test("Back onto Home renders it again even when it is already on the page", () => {
+        const views = reopenedOn("main", []);
+        pushCurrentView();
+        views.addressDetail.show();
+        calls = [];
+        goBack();
+        expect(calls).toEqual(["main"]);
+        expect(state.currentView).toBe("main");
+    });
+});

tests/backgroundApproval.test.js

@@ -32,6 +32,21 @@ const ORIGIN = "https://dapp.example";
 const HOSTNAME = "dapp.example";
 const EXT_URL = "chrome-extension://autistmask/";
 
+// An origin the persisted state has never allowed, so asking to connect from
+// it raises a prompt rather than being answered from allowedSites.
+const FRESH_ORIGIN = "https://fresh.example";
+
+// The approval id in the most recent popup URL of a list, or null when none
+// of them carries one. Takes both shapes: the absolute URL windows.create()
+// is given and the extension-relative one action.setPopup() is given.
+function approvalIdIn(urls) {
+    for (let i = urls.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
+        if (!urls[i] || !urls[i].includes("?approval=")) continue;
+        return new URL(urls[i], EXT_URL).searchParams.get("approval");
+    }
+    return null;
+}
+
 // What the dApp asks for: no nonce, no gas, no fees. This is the shape that
 // makes a duplicate broadcast possible at all.
 const TX_PARAMS = {
@@ -146,8 +161,13 @@ function loadBackground(options) {
 
     let messageListener = null;
     let windowRemovedListener = null;
+    let connectListener = null;
     const created = [];
     const removed = [];
+    // Every URL the background put on the browser action. A site approval
+    // raised through action.openPopup() opens no window at all, so this is
+    // the only place its id appears.
+    const actionPopups = [];
 
     global.chrome = {
         storage: {
@@ -163,7 +183,14 @@ function loadBackground(options) {
                     messageListener = fn;
                 },
             },
-            onConnect: { addListener: () => {} },
+            // Captured, not swallowed: the approval port is what carries a
+            // site connection's decision and the popup teardown that races
+            // it, so a no-op stub here hides the whole subject of #275.
+            onConnect: {
+                addListener: (fn) => {
+                    connectListener = fn;
+                },
+            },
             lastError: null,
         },
         windows: {
@@ -189,7 +216,17 @@ function loadBackground(options) {
             query: (q, cb) => cb([]),
             sendMessage: () => {},
         },
-        action: { setPopup: () => {} },
+        action: {
+            setPopup: (o) => {
+                actionPopups.push(o.popup);
+            },
+            // The production route for a site connection. Present only when
+            // a test asks for it, because with it the prompt is the toolbar
+            // popup: no window is created, so windows.onRemoved can never
+            // fire for it and the port disconnect is the only close signal
+            // that exists.
+            ...(opts.actionPopup ? { openPopup: () => Promise.resolve() } : {}),
+        },
     };
 
     require("../src/background/index");
@@ -248,6 +285,70 @@ function loadBackground(options) {
         };
     }
 
+    // A dApp asking to connect. The origin defaults to one the persisted
+    // state has never allowed, so the request really does raise a prompt
+    // instead of being answered from allowedSites.
+    function requestSite(origin) {
+        let rpcResult = null;
+        messageListener(
+            {
+                type: "AUTISTMASK_RPC",
+                method: "eth_requestAccounts",
+                params: [],
+            },
+            { origin: origin || FRESH_ORIGIN },
+            (r) => {
+                rpcResult = r;
+            },
+        );
+        return {
+            // Wherever the prompt went: the toolbar popup URL when
+            // action.openPopup() carried it, the created window otherwise.
+            id: () =>
+                approvalIdIn(actionPopups) ||
+                approvalIdIn(created.map((c) => c.url)),
+            result: () => rpcResult,
+        };
+    }
+
+    // The popup's approval port, as the browser delivers it. Messages posted
+    // on a port and that port's disconnect travel one channel in FIFO order,
+    // which is exactly the property the fix rests on, so this stub delivers
+    // them in the order the caller emits them and never reorders them.
+    function connectApproval(id, senderUrl) {
+        const onMessage = [];
+        const onDisconnect = [];
+        const port = {
+            name: "approval:" + id,
+            sender: {
+                url:
+                    senderUrl === undefined
+                        ? EXT_URL + "src/popup/index.html?approval=" + id
+                        : senderUrl,
+            },
+            onMessage: { addListener: (fn) => onMessage.push(fn) },
+            onDisconnect: { addListener: (fn) => onDisconnect.push(fn) },
+        };
+        connectListener(port);
+        return {
+            decide: (approved, remember) => {
+                for (const fn of onMessage) {
+                    fn(
+                        {
+                            type: "AUTISTMASK_APPROVAL_DECISION",
+                            approved,
+                            remember: !!remember,
+                        },
+                        port,
+                    );
+                }
+            },
+            disconnect: () => {
+                for (const fn of onDisconnect) fn(port);
+            },
+        };
+    }
+
     // The user closes the approval popup. `created` is index-aligned with the
     // ids the window stub hands back, so window 1 is the first popup opened.
     function closeWindow(windowId) {
@@ -258,6 +359,8 @@ function loadBackground(options) {
         send,
         requestTx,
         requestSign,
+        requestSite,
+        connectApproval,
         closeWindow,
         broadcastTransaction,
         loadState,
@@ -1058,3 +1161,136 @@ describe("popup-only messages", () => {
         });
     });
 });
+
+// A site connection decided in a popup that closes on the next line.
+//
+// The decision and the teardown are two events the popup emits back to back,
+// and the background must not be able to reach different outcomes depending on
+// which of them it processes first. It cannot, because they are now one
+// channel: the decision is posted on the approval port that the close then
+// disconnects, so it is delivered first. Every test here therefore emits the
+// close IMMEDIATELY after the decision, with nothing awaited in between —
+// which is what the popup does, and what used to report a user who approved as
+// having refused (#275).
+describe("a site connection decided as the popup closes", () => {
+    // The production route: chrome.action.openPopup() put the prompt in the
+    // toolbar popup, which is not a window, so nothing but the port
+    // disconnect can tell the background this prompt is gone.
+    test("approving in the toolbar popup connects the site", async () => {
+        const bg = loadBackground({ actionPopup: true });
+        const pending = bg.requestSite();
+        await settle();
+        const id = pending.id();
+        expect(id).toBeTruthy();
+        expect(bg.created).toHaveLength(0);
+
+        const port = bg.connectApproval(id);
+        port.decide(true, false);
+        port.disconnect();
+        await settle();
+
+        expect(pending.result()).toEqual({ result: [signer.address] });
+    });
+
+    test("closing the toolbar popup without deciding is a rejection", async () => {
+        const bg = loadBackground({ actionPopup: true });
+        const pending = bg.requestSite();
+        await settle();
+
+        const port = bg.connectApproval(pending.id());
+        port.disconnect();
+        await settle();
+
+        expect(pending.result()).toEqual({
+            error: { code: 4001, message: "User rejected the request." },
+        });
+    });
+
+    test("rejecting is a rejection, and the close that follows adds nothing", async () => {
+        const bg = loadBackground({ actionPopup: true });
+        const pending = bg.requestSite();
+        await settle();
+
+        const port = bg.connectApproval(pending.id());
+        port.decide(false, false);
+        port.disconnect();
+        await settle();
+
+        expect(pending.result()).toEqual({
+            error: { code: 4001, message: "User rejected the request." },
+        });
+    });
+
+    // The port carries a decision now, so it carries the sender check the
+    // one-off message used to carry. A content script that guessed an
+    // approval id must not be able to connect the site it is running on.
+    test("a decision from a page sender is ignored, and the close rejects", async () => {
+        const bg = loadBackground({ actionPopup: true });
+        const pending = bg.requestSite();
+        await settle();
+
+        const port = bg.connectApproval(pending.id(), FRESH_ORIGIN + "/x.html");
+        port.decide(true, true);
+        await settle();
+        expect(pending.result()).toBeNull();
+
+        port.disconnect();
+        await settle();
+        expect(pending.result()).toEqual({
+            error: { code: 4001, message: "User rejected the request." },
+        });
+    });
+
+    // The fallback shape, where openPopup() is unavailable and the prompt is
+    // a window the extension opened. Closing it fires windows.onRemoved as
+    // well, on a channel of its own that is ordered against nothing — so the
+    // window event must not be allowed to decide a site approval either.
+    test("approving in the fallback window survives the window event too", async () => {
+        const bg = loadBackground();
+        const pending = bg.requestSite();
+        await settle();
+        expect(bg.created).toHaveLength(1);
+
+        const port = bg.connectApproval(pending.id());
+        port.decide(true, false);
+        bg.closeWindow(1);
+        port.disconnect();
+        await settle();
+
+        expect(pending.result()).toEqual({ result: [signer.address] });
+    });
+
+    // Same shape, and the same window event arriving before the popup has
+    // said anything at all — which is a user closing the window rather than
+    // deciding, and still has to reach the dApp as a rejection.
+    test("closing the fallback window without deciding is a rejection", async () => {
+        const bg = loadBackground();
+        const pending = bg.requestSite();
+        await settle();
+
+        const port = bg.connectApproval(pending.id());
+        bg.closeWindow(1);
+        port.disconnect();
+        await settle();
+
+        expect(pending.result()).toEqual({
+            error: { code: 4001, message: "User rejected the request." },
+        });
+    });
+
+    // The net under the paragraph above: a prompt whose page never got as far
+    // as connecting the port has no disconnect to reject it, so the window
+    // event has to. Otherwise the dApp waits forever on a window that is gone.
+    test("a window that closes before its popup ever connected still rejects", async () => {
+        const bg = loadBackground();
+        const pending = bg.requestSite();
+        await settle();
+
+        bg.closeWindow(1);
+        await settle();
+
+        expect(pending.result()).toEqual({
+            error: { code: 4001, message: "User rejected the request." },
+        });
+    });
+});

tests/e2e/network.js

@@ -86,9 +86,11 @@ const DAPP_URL = DAPP_ORIGIN + "/";
 // never drive the popup that has to settle it; start() files the promise
 // under a key and settle() collects it once the prompt has been dealt with.
 //
-// The rejection branch records `code` as it arrives. EIP-1193 says a user
-// rejection is a ProviderRpcError carrying code 4001; what the page can
-// actually see is recorded here rather than assumed, and asserted in run.js.
+// The rejection branch records the whole observable shape of the error as it
+// arrives — name, message, and whether a `code` is present at all as distinct
+// from its value. EIP-1193 says a user rejection is a ProviderRpcError
+// carrying code 4001; what the page can actually see is recorded here rather
+// than assumed, and asserted in run.js.
 //
 // The message log is the page's half of the boundary observation: every
 // AUTISTMASK_* message that crosses between this page and the content
@@ -120,6 +122,7 @@ const DAPP_HTML = [
     "                    return {",
     "                        settled: 'rejected',",
     "                        message: String((error && error.message) || error),",
+    "                        name: error ? error.name : undefined,",
     "                        hasCode: !!error && 'code' in Object(error),",
     "                        code: error ? error.code : undefined,",
     "                    };",

tests/e2e/run.js

@@ -419,6 +419,172 @@ test("reopening the popup never lands on the phrase screen (#161)", async (env)
     assertWiped(st, env.phrase, "after reopening the popup");
 });
 
+// ------------------------------- Back after reopening the popup (#268)
+
+// A reopened popup renders the wallet list and the view it restores onto,
+// and nothing else: every other screen is still the blank static template
+// from index.html. Back used to only unhide its target, which is why these
+// have to run against the real popup — the template is present and
+// well-formed, so only its emptiness distinguishes the defect, and only a
+// real reopen produces it.
+
+// Everything the address screen must have on it, read out of the DOM.
+function addressScreenState(page) {
+    return page.evaluate(() => {
+        const line = document.getElementById("address-line");
+        const balances = document.getElementById("address-balances");
+        return {
+            hidden: document
+                .getElementById("view-address")
+                .classList.contains("hidden"),
+            line: line ? line.innerText.trim() : "",
+            balances: balances ? balances.innerText.trim() : "",
+        };
+    });
+}
+
+// Close and reopen the page rather than reload it: that is what the toolbar
+// popup does, and it is the only thing that produces the unrendered views.
+async function reopenPopup(env, restoredView) {
+    await env.page.close();
+    env.page = await openPopup(env.ctx, env.popupUrl);
+    await visible(env.page, restoredView);
+}
+
+// The reproduction from the issue, step for step.
+test("Back after reopening the popup renders the address screen (#268)", async (env) => {
+    await openAddressDetail(env.page);
+    const before = await addressScreenState(env.page);
+    assert(
+        before.line.length > 0,
+        "the address screen was blank to begin with",
+    );
+
+    await env.page.click("#btn-settings");
+    await visible(env.page, "#view-settings");
+
+    await reopenPopup(env, "#view-settings");
+
+    await env.page.click("#btn-settings-back");
+    await visible(env.page, "#view-address");
+
+    const after = await addressScreenState(env.page);
+    assert(
+        after.line === before.line,
+        "the address line reads " +
+            JSON.stringify(after.line) +
+            ", expected " +
+            JSON.stringify(before.line),
+    );
+    assert(
+        after.balances.includes("ETH"),
+        "the balances read " + JSON.stringify(after.balances),
+    );
+});
+
+// The same defect one screen further in. Receive holds the address twice
+// over — as text and as the QR code the sender scans — and a blank one is
+// worse than a missing screen.
+// Everything the Receive screen must have on it. The QR code is read as
+// pixels, not as an element: the blank template carries the canvas too, a
+// default 300x150 one with nothing drawn on it and every pixel fully
+// transparent. A drawn QR paints an opaque background across the whole
+// canvas, so a single opaque pixel is the whole question.
+function receiveScreenState(page) {
+    return page.evaluate(() => {
+        const block = document.getElementById("receive-address-block");
+        const canvas = document.getElementById("receive-qr");
+        const px = canvas
+            .getContext("2d")
+            .getImageData(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height).data;
+        let opaque = 0;
+        for (let i = 3; i < px.length; i += 4) {
+            if (px[i] > 0) opaque += 1;
+        }
+        return {
+            address: block.dataset.full || "",
+            text: block.innerText.trim(),
+            qrOpaquePixels: opaque,
+        };
+    });
+}
+
+test("Back after reopening the popup renders the Receive screen (#268)", async (env) => {
+    await openAddressDetail(env.page);
+    await env.page.click("#btn-receive");
+    await visible(env.page, "#view-receive");
+    const before = await receiveScreenState(env.page);
+    assert(
+        /^0x[0-9a-fA-F]{40}$/.test(before.address),
+        "Receive showed no address to begin with: " +
+            JSON.stringify(before.address),
+    );
+
+    await env.page.click("#btn-settings");
+    await visible(env.page, "#view-settings");
+
+    await reopenPopup(env, "#view-settings");
+
+    await env.page.click("#btn-settings-back");
+    await visible(env.page, "#view-receive");
+
+    const shown = await receiveScreenState(env.page);
+    assert(
+        shown.address === before.address,
+        "Receive shows " +
+            JSON.stringify(shown.address) +
+            ", expected " +
+            JSON.stringify(before.address),
+    );
+    assert(
+        shown.text.includes(before.address),
+        "the Receive address is not on screen: " + JSON.stringify(shown.text),
+    );
+    assert(shown.qrOpaquePixels > 0, "Receive shows an unpainted QR code");
+
+    // Leave the suite where it found it.
+    await env.page.click("#btn-receive-back");
+    await visible(env.page, "#view-address");
+    await env.page.click("#btn-address-back");
+    await visible(env.page, "#view-main");
+});
+
+// The other half of the requirement: Back renders a screen this page load
+// never rendered, and must NOT re-render one it already has on screen.
+// settings.show() reassigns #settings-rpc from persisted state, so
+// re-rendering Settings on the way back would silently revert whatever the
+// user typed and had not saved yet — and they could then press Save and
+// store the value they believed they had replaced. No reopen here: this is
+// an ordinary in-session forward-and-back, which is exactly why the render
+// must not happen.
+test("Back onto Settings keeps unsaved input (#268)", async (env) => {
+    await visible(env.page, "#view-main");
+    await env.page.click("#btn-settings");
+    await visible(env.page, "#view-settings");
+
+    const typed = "https://rpc.example.invalid/unsaved";
+    await env.page.fill("#settings-rpc", typed);
+
+    await env.page.click("#btn-settings-add-token");
+    await visible(env.page, "#view-settings-addtoken");
+    await env.page.click("#btn-settings-addtoken-back");
+    await visible(env.page, "#view-settings");
+
+    const kept = await env.page.inputValue("#settings-rpc");
+    assert(
+        kept === typed,
+        "the unsaved RPC URL reads " +
+            JSON.stringify(kept) +
+            ", expected " +
+            JSON.stringify(typed),
+    );
+
+    // Leave the suite where it found it. The typed value was never saved,
+    // and Settings reloads the field from state next time it renders.
+    await env.page.click("#btn-settings-back");
+    await visible(env.page, "#view-main");
+});
+
 // -------------------------------------------- address removal (#162)
 
 // Number of address rows across every wallet in the list, counted in the DOM
@@ -1430,32 +1596,13 @@ async function reserveApprovalTab(env) {
     // one down with it.
     env.approvalTab = await env.ctx.newPage();
 
-    // The one accommodation this section makes to the shipped code, and the
-    // reason for it.
-    //
-    // Both approval buttons call runtime.sendMessage() and then window.close()
-    // on the next line. Closing this page disconnects the approval port, and
-    // the disconnect handler in src/background/index.js settles a pending
-    // site approval as a rejection. In a tab those two race and the teardown
-    // wins: the approve message is never acted on, and the page is told the
-    // user rejected. Measured — with the close left in place the approval
-    // resolves as a rejection every time; with it deferred it resolves as an
-    // approval every time.
-    //
-    // It is deferred, not removed: the harness closes the page itself once
-    // the outcome has been observed, which is what window.close() would have
-    // done, only after the message it was racing has been processed.
-    //
-    // This affects the site-connection prompt only. The sign and transaction
-    // prompts run in windows the extension opens itself, with window.close()
-    // untouched, and their disconnect handler deliberately keeps a tx or sign
-    // approval pending rather than rejecting it — so there is no race there
-    // to accommodate. Whether the same ordering holds in a real toolbar popup
-    // is not observable from a headless harness and is reported rather than
-    // assumed either way.
-    await env.approvalTab.addInitScript(() => {
-        window.close = function () {};
-    });
+    // This tab runs the shipped popup with nothing patched. The site
+    // approval buttons decide and then close on the next line, and the two
+    // site-approval tests below are therefore the real-browser
+    // approve-then-immediate-close and reject-then-immediate-close cases: the
+    // decision rides the approval port, which also carries the disconnect the
+    // close causes, so it is delivered ahead of it and the outcome does not
+    // depend on the teardown timing (#275).
     await env.approvalTab.goto("about:blank");
     await sleep(APPROVAL_TAB_SETTLE_MS);
     return env.approvalTab;
@@ -1504,6 +1651,28 @@ async function closeApprovalPages(ctx) {
     }
 }
 
+// Click a button whose own handler closes the window it lives in — every
+// Reject, and Allow on the site prompt.
+//
+// page.click() dispatches the click and then waits for the renderer to
+// acknowledge it, and a page torn down by the handler never gets to. The
+// dispatch is what the test needs and the log shows it happening ("performing
+// click action") immediately before the failure; the page going away is the
+// button working, not the click failing. Observed on #btn-reject-sign and
+// #btn-reject-tx, whose windows have always closed themselves.
+//
+// This swallows nothing that matters: a click that did not land leaves the
+// dApp promise unsettled and the assertion after the call still fails. A
+// button that is missing or unclickable raises a different error, which is
+// rethrown.
+async function clickAndClose(page, selector) {
+    try {
+        await page.click(selector);
+    } catch (e) {
+        if (!String((e && e.message) || e).includes("has been closed")) throw e;
+    }
+}
+
 // Record every message the approval window sends to the background worker.
 //
 // This is the direct observation the password check needs. It is installed
@@ -1591,15 +1760,14 @@ async function lastResponseError(page) {
 }
 
 // A rejected prompt, asserted at both ends: the page's promise rejected
-// rather than hanging or resolving, and the response that crossed the
-// boundary carried EIP-1193 code 4001.
+// rather than hanging or resolving, and EIP-1193 code 4001 is present both
+// on the wire and on the Error the calling page catches.
 //
-// The code is asserted on the wire because that is the only place it
-// survives. src/content/inpage.js rebuilds the rejection as `new
-// Error(error.message)`, so the Error the calling page catches carries the
-// message and no code. That is reported rather than asserted either way —
-// locking in the current behaviour would make the gap permanent, and
-// asserting the code on the Error would fail today.
+// Both ends matter because they used to disagree. The code crossed the
+// boundary correctly and src/content/inpage.js then threw it away, rebuilding
+// every rejection as `new Error(error.message)` — so a dApp branching on
+// `err.code === 4001` saw undefined and could not tell a refusal from a
+// failure (#274). Asserting only the wire would leave that gap invisible.
 async function assertUserRejection(page, key, label) {
     const outcome = await settleRequest(page, key);
     assert(
@@ -1621,15 +1789,32 @@ async function assertUserRejection(page, key, label) {
             " did not carry EIP-1193 code 4001 across the boundary: " +
             JSON.stringify(error),
     );
+    assert(
+        outcome.hasCode,
+        label +
+            " reached the page as an error with no code property at all, so a " +
+            "dApp cannot tell the user's refusal from a failure: " +
+            JSON.stringify(outcome),
+    );
+    assert(
+        outcome.code === 4001,
+        label +
+            " reached the page with code " +
+            JSON.stringify(outcome.code) +
+            " rather than EIP-1193 4001",
+    );
+    assert(
+        outcome.name === "ProviderRpcError",
+        label +
+            " reached the page as " +
+            JSON.stringify(outcome.name) +
+            " rather than an EIP-1193 ProviderRpcError",
+    );
     console.log(
         "# " +
             label +
-            ": boundary code=" +
-            error.code +
-            " page Error.code=" +
-            JSON.stringify(outcome.code) +
-            " page Error carries a code=" +
-            outcome.hasCode,
+            ": code 4001 on the wire and on the page's " +
+            outcome.name,
     );
     return outcome;
 }
@@ -1708,7 +1893,7 @@ test("eth_requestAccounts rejected at the prompt returns a rejection (#183)", as
         // origin in deniedSites and every later test in this section is
         // auto-rejected with no prompt at all, which would look like a pass.
         await popup.uncheck("#approve-remember");
-        await popup.click("#btn-reject");
+        await clickAndClose(popup, "#btn-reject");
 
         await assertUserRejection(
             env.dapp,
@@ -1739,7 +1924,7 @@ test("eth_requestAccounts approved returns the selected address (#183)", async (
         // does not, and the sign and transaction tests below all require the
         // origin to still be authorized.
         await popup.check("#approve-remember");
-        await popup.click("#btn-approve");
+        await clickAndClose(popup, "#btn-approve");
 
         outcome = await settleRequest(env.dapp, "accounts");
     } finally {
@@ -1847,7 +2032,7 @@ test("personal_sign rejected returns a rejection to the page (#183)", async (env
     ]);
     const popup = await waitForApprovalWindow(env.ctx);
     await visible(popup, "#view-approve-sign");
-    await popup.click("#btn-reject-sign");
+    await clickAndClose(popup, "#btn-reject-sign");
 
     await assertUserRejection(
         env.dapp,
@@ -1950,7 +2135,7 @@ test("eth_signTypedData_v4 rejected returns a rejection to the page (#183)", asy
     ]);
     const popup = await waitForApprovalWindow(env.ctx);
     await visible(popup, "#view-approve-sign");
-    await popup.click("#btn-reject-sign");
+    await clickAndClose(popup, "#btn-reject-sign");
 
     await assertUserRejection(
         env.dapp,
@@ -2108,7 +2293,7 @@ test("eth_sendTransaction rejected broadcasts nothing (#183)", async (env) => {
     ]);
     const popup = await waitForApprovalWindow(env.ctx);
     await visible(popup, "#view-approve-tx");
-    await popup.click("#btn-reject-tx");
+    await clickAndClose(popup, "#btn-reject-tx");
 
     await assertUserRejection(
         env.dapp,

tests/inpageErrors.test.js

@@ -0,0 +1,310 @@
+// The EIP-1193 error the page actually catches (src/content/inpage.js).
+//
+// The bug this pins down (issue #274): the provider rebuilt every failure as
+// `new Error(error.message)`, so the `code` the background produced and the
+// content script relayed intact was thrown away in the last hop. A dApp
+// checking `err.code === 4001` — the standard way to tell "the user said no"
+// from "the wallet broke" — saw undefined, and well-behaved sites showed an
+// error or retried instead of accepting the refusal.
+//
+// inpage.js is a bare IIFE injected into the page's JS context, not a module:
+// it takes no import and exports nothing, and reaches for `window` at load.
+// So it is evaluated here the way the browser evaluates it, against a stub
+// window, and the provider is collected from `window.ethereum`. The globals it
+// touches are passed in as function parameters rather than assigned to
+// globalThis: nothing leaks between tests, and the source is compiled in this
+// realm, so the errors it constructs are comparable against this file's own
+// `Error` — which a second realm's intrinsics would silently defeat.
+//
+// There is no jsdom in this repo; see tests/txStatus.test.js.
+
+const fs = require("fs");
+const path = require("path");
+const { webcrypto } = require("crypto");
+
+const SOURCE = fs.readFileSync(
+    path.join(__dirname, "..", "src", "content", "inpage.js"),
+    "utf8",
+);
+
+const loadInto = new Function(
+    "window",
+    "self",
+    "crypto",
+    "Event",
+    "CustomEvent",
+    SOURCE,
+);
+
+class StubEvent {
+    constructor(type) {
+        this.type = type;
+    }
+}
+
+class StubCustomEvent extends StubEvent {
+    constructor(type, init) {
+        super(type);
+        this.detail = init && init.detail;
+    }
+}
+
+// Every code the background emits on the RPC path today, read out of
+// src/background/index.js. The provider must not know this list — it passes
+// through whatever arrived — but the cases below are the real ones.
+const REJECTED = 4001; // user rejected the request
+const UNAUTHORIZED = 4100; // site not connected / wrong address
+const UNRECOGNIZED_CHAIN = 4902; // switch/add to an unsupported chain
+
+// A stub window with the four things inpage.js touches: message listeners,
+// postMessage out to the content script, window.ethereum, and dispatchEvent
+// for the EIP-6963 announcement.
+function loadProvider() {
+    const messageListeners = [];
+    const posted = [];
+
+    const win = {
+        addEventListener(type, fn) {
+            if (type === "message") messageListeners.push(fn);
+        },
+        removeEventListener(type, fn) {
+            const i = messageListeners.indexOf(fn);
+            if (type === "message" && i !== -1) messageListeners.splice(i, 1);
+        },
+        postMessage(data) {
+            posted.push(data);
+        },
+        dispatchEvent() {
+            return true;
+        },
+    };
+    win.window = win;
+
+    loadInto(win, win, webcrypto, StubEvent, StubCustomEvent);
+
+    // Deliver the content script's answer to an outstanding request. The id is
+    // read back off the wire rather than assumed: inpage.js issues its own
+    // eth_chainId at load, so the first id a test sees is not 1.
+    function respond(response) {
+        const request = posted
+            .filter((m) => m.type === "AUTISTMASK_REQUEST")
+            .pop();
+        expect(request).toBeDefined();
+        const event = {
+            source: win,
+            data: { type: "AUTISTMASK_RESPONSE", id: request.id, ...response },
+        };
+        for (const fn of messageListeners.slice()) fn(event);
+    }
+
+    return { provider: win.ethereum, posted, respond };
+}
+
+// Start a request, answer it with `response`, and hand back the rejection.
+// Fails the test if the call resolves instead.
+async function rejectionFrom(start, response) {
+    const { provider, respond } = loadProvider();
+    const settled = start(provider).then(
+        (result) => ({ resolved: result }),
+        (error) => ({ error }),
+    );
+    // The provider posts synchronously, so the request is already on the wire.
+    respond(response);
+    const outcome = await settled;
+    expect(outcome).not.toHaveProperty("resolved");
+    return outcome.error;
+}
+
+describe("an EIP-1193 code reaches the page", () => {
+    test("a user rejection arrives as code 4001", async () => {
+        const err = await rejectionFrom(
+            (p) => p.request({ method: "eth_requestAccounts" }),
+            {
+                error: {
+                    code: REJECTED,
+                    message: "User rejected the request.",
+                },
+            },
+        );
+        expect(err.code).toBe(REJECTED);
+        expect(err.message).toBe("User rejected the request.");
+    });
+
+    test("it is a ProviderRpcError, and an Error", async () => {
+        const err = await rejectionFrom(
+            (p) => p.request({ method: "eth_requestAccounts" }),
+            {
+                error: {
+                    code: REJECTED,
+                    message: "User rejected the request.",
+                },
+            },
+        );
+        expect(err).toBeInstanceOf(Error);
+        expect(err.name).toBe("ProviderRpcError");
+    });
+
+    test("4100 unauthorized arrives intact", async () => {
+        const err = await rejectionFrom(
+            (p) => p.request({ method: "personal_sign", params: ["0x00"] }),
+            { error: { code: UNAUTHORIZED, message: "Unauthorized" } },
+        );
+        expect(err.code).toBe(UNAUTHORIZED);
+        expect(err.message).toBe("Unauthorized");
+    });
+
+    test("4902 unrecognized chain arrives intact", async () => {
+        const message =
+            "AutistMask supports Ethereum Mainnet and Sepolia Testnet only.";
+        const err = await rejectionFrom(
+            (p) => p.request({ method: "wallet_switchEthereumChain" }),
+            { error: { code: UNRECOGNIZED_CHAIN, message } },
+        );
+        expect(err.code).toBe(UNRECOGNIZED_CHAIN);
+        expect(err.message).toBe(message);
+    });
+
+    // The provider is not allowed to know the list above: a code added to the
+    // background later must reach the page without this file being edited.
+    test("a code the provider has never heard of is passed through", async () => {
+        const err = await rejectionFrom(
+            (p) => p.request({ method: "eth_accounts" }),
+            { error: { code: 4900, message: "Disconnected" } },
+        );
+        expect(err.code).toBe(4900);
+    });
+
+    test("data is carried when the boundary sent it", async () => {
+        const err = await rejectionFrom(
+            (p) => p.request({ method: "eth_call" }),
+            {
+                error: {
+                    code: -32000,
+                    message: "execution reverted",
+                    data: "0x08c379a0",
+                },
+            },
+        );
+        expect(err.code).toBe(-32000);
+        expect(err.data).toBe("0x08c379a0");
+    });
+
+    test("no data property is invented when the boundary sent none", async () => {
+        const err = await rejectionFrom(
+            (p) => p.request({ method: "eth_requestAccounts" }),
+            {
+                error: {
+                    code: REJECTED,
+                    message: "User rejected the request.",
+                },
+            },
+        );
+        expect("data" in err).toBe(false);
+    });
+});
+
+describe("the message is untouched", () => {
+    test("a coded error keeps the message byte for byte", async () => {
+        const message =
+            "This site asked to sign as an address that is not " +
+            "the active one.";
+        const err = await rejectionFrom(
+            (p) => p.request({ method: "personal_sign" }),
+            { error: { code: UNAUTHORIZED, message } },
+        );
+        expect(err.message).toBe(message);
+    });
+
+    test("an error the background sent with no code keeps its message", async () => {
+        const err = await rejectionFrom(
+            (p) => p.request({ method: "eth_sendTransaction" }),
+            { error: { message: "No accounts available" } },
+        );
+        expect(err.message).toBe("No accounts available");
+    });
+
+    // A ProviderRpcError whose code is undefined would claim a conformance it
+    // does not have, and `'code' in err` is exactly what a careful dApp asks.
+    test("an error with no code gets no code property at all", async () => {
+        const err = await rejectionFrom(
+            (p) => p.request({ method: "eth_sendTransaction" }),
+            { error: { message: "No accounts available" } },
+        );
+        expect(err).toBeInstanceOf(Error);
+        expect("code" in err).toBe(false);
+    });
+
+    test("an error with no message keeps the generic fallback", async () => {
+        const err = await rejectionFrom(
+            (p) => p.request({ method: "eth_sendTransaction" }),
+            { error: { code: REJECTED } },
+        );
+        expect(err.message).toBe("Request failed");
+        expect(err.code).toBe(REJECTED);
+    });
+});
+
+// Every entry point the provider exposes, not just eth_requestAccounts. They
+// all funnel through the same response listener, and this is what says so.
+describe("every request path carries the code", () => {
+    const rejection = {
+        error: { code: REJECTED, message: "User rejected the request." },
+    };
+
+    test("request()", async () => {
+        const err = await rejectionFrom(
+            (p) => p.request({ method: "eth_requestAccounts" }),
+            rejection,
+        );
+        expect(err.code).toBe(REJECTED);
+    });
+
+    test("enable()", async () => {
+        const err = await rejectionFrom((p) => p.enable(), rejection);
+        expect(err.code).toBe(REJECTED);
+    });
+
+    test("send(method, params)", async () => {
+        const err = await rejectionFrom(
+            (p) => p.send("eth_requestAccounts", []),
+            rejection,
+        );
+        expect(err.code).toBe(REJECTED);
+    });
+
+    test("send({ method, params })", async () => {
+        const err = await rejectionFrom(
+            (p) => p.send({ method: "personal_sign", params: ["0x00"] }),
+            rejection,
+        );
+        expect(err.code).toBe(REJECTED);
+    });
+
+    test("sendAsync() hands the code to its callback", async () => {
+        const { provider, respond } = loadProvider();
+        const called = new Promise((resolve) => {
+            provider.sendAsync({ id: 1, method: "eth_requestAccounts" }, (e) =>
+                resolve(e),
+            );
+        });
+        respond(rejection);
+        const err = await called;
+        expect(err.name).toBe("ProviderRpcError");
+        expect(err.code).toBe(REJECTED);
+        expect(err.message).toBe("User rejected the request.");
+    });
+});
+
+describe("the success path is unchanged", () => {
+    test("a result still resolves", async () => {
+        const { provider, respond } = loadProvider();
+        const settled = provider.request({ method: "eth_requestAccounts" });
+        respond({ result: ["0xb61264DEFB0c4B8afb3D73724be15310036743a5"] });
+        await expect(settled).resolves.toEqual([
+            "0xb61264DEFB0c4B8afb3D73724be15310036743a5",
+        ]);
+        expect(provider.selectedAddress).toBe(
+            "0xb61264DEFB0c4B8afb3D73724be15310036743a5",
+        );
+    });
+});