diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5f5bd87..a4fa830 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -500,9 +500,12 @@ papered over:
   forced by clicking Reveal and the settings gear in one page task, which a
   person cannot do; the case a person can hit, the first decrypt after the popup
   opens while libsodium is still loading, is not driven.
-- Approval windows open at 1280x720 whatever size the extension asks for, so
-  whether an approval screen fits its window is checked in the Firefox suite
-  only.
+- Approval windows open at 1280x720 whatever size the extension asks for. The
+  site-connection prompt and the transaction approval are checked for sideways
+  scrolling at 396x600 by sizing the page itself for that measurement only, and
+  the rest of each test runs at 1280x720. That leaves out the window's frame and
+  the page widening its window, so whether an approval screen fits its window is
+  checked in the Firefox suite only.
 
 Any test that drives a failure path on purpose declares the `console.error` it
 is about to provoke, via `errors.expect()`. That is not a mute: the declaration
diff --git a/src/popup/index.html b/src/popup/index.html
index ba3197f..b41cf9e 100644
--- a/src/popup/index.html
+++ b/src/popup/index.html
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@
                 <div id="add-wallet-section-mnemonic">
                     <!-- The die button shares the instruction's row: on a row
                          of its own it pushes Import below the fold at
-                         360x600. -->
+                         396x600. -->
                     <div class="mb-2 flex justify-between items-start gap-2">
                         <p>
                             Enter your 12 or 24 word recovery phrase below, or
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@
                     />
                 </div>
                 <!-- The error line sits beside Import, not above it: at
-                     360x600 the button already starts near the bottom of
+                     396x600 the button already starts near the bottom of
                      the popup, and a line of its own would push it below
                      the fold. The longest error fits on one line here. -->
                 <div class="flex items-center gap-2">
diff --git a/tests/dustThreshold.test.js b/tests/dustThreshold.test.js
index 100b045..0a6a0e6 100644
--- a/tests/dustThreshold.test.js
+++ b/tests/dustThreshold.test.js
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ describe("the flash line the message is shown in", () => {
     //
     // The line cuts a message too long for it with an ellipsis (see
     // showFlash() in src/popup/views/helpers.js). The assertions that
-    // measure that, in a real browser at the documented 360x600 popup, are
+    // measure that, in a real browser at the documented 396x600 popup, are
     // "a rejected dust threshold shifts no layout (#233)" and "an over-long
     // flash message keeps to one line (#252)" in tests/e2e/run.js, run by
     // make test-e2e. They are not in make check because REPO_POLICIES.md
diff --git a/tests/e2e/run.js b/tests/e2e/run.js
index 2fdd9ad..3ec090b 100644
--- a/tests/e2e/run.js
+++ b/tests/e2e/run.js
@@ -60,6 +60,14 @@ const TEST_TIMEOUT_MS = 120000;
 // trailing drain in main().
 const TRAILING_WATCH_MS = 1500;
 
+// The popup's size, as README gives it: `body` in src/popup/styles/main.css
+// is 396px wide, and src/background/index.js opens an approval window at
+// the same 396x600. Pages in this context otherwise get Playwright's
+// 1280x720 default, where the page never scrolls sideways and a button
+// below the popup's fold is still on screen, so a layout measured there
+// passes whatever the page does.
+const POPUP_VIEWPORT = { width: 396, height: 600 };
+
 const tests = [];
 
 function test(name, fn) {
@@ -1885,12 +1893,6 @@ test("a network switch in Settings shows and removes the testnet banner at once
 
 // ------------------------------------------------ dust threshold (#233)
 
-// The popup size README documents the UI as designed for. Pages in this
-// context otherwise get Playwright's 1280x720 default, at which the flash
-// line has room for any plausible message and never wraps — measuring
-// there would pass for every string and prove nothing.
-const POPUP_VIEWPORT = { width: 360, height: 600 };
-
 // Everything below the flash line that must not move when it fills, plus
 // the height of the line itself. Runs in the page.
 //
@@ -2139,7 +2141,7 @@ test("a password error moves nothing on any screen (#297)", async (env) => {
 
 // ------------------------------------------ add wallet Import button (#493)
 
-// At 360x600 the add wallet screen's Import button already starts near the
+// At 396x600 the add wallet screen's Import button already starts near the
 // bottom of the popup, so its password error line sits beside the button
 // rather than above it. Measures the button and the line empty and again
 // filled with the longest error addWallet.js puts there. Runs in the page.
@@ -3431,10 +3433,14 @@ test("six failed receipt lookups in a row end on the unreachable-network message
 // timeout ("<iframe id=\"pwn\"> intercepts pointer events") rather than as
 // anything that names the defect.
 
-// Verbatim from the issue's reproduction.
+// The issue's reproduction, with the frame sized to the popup.
 const HOSTILE_SYMBOL =
     '<iframe id="pwn" src="https://dapp.e2e.test/" ' +
-    'style="position:fixed;left:0;top:0;width:360px;height:600px;z-index:99999"></iframe>';
+    'style="position:fixed;left:0;top:0;width:' +
+    POPUP_VIEWPORT.width +
+    "px;height:" +
+    POPUP_VIEWPORT.height +
+    'px;z-index:99999"></iframe>';
 
 // What a correctly escaped and capped render of it reads as: the first
 // MAX_SYMBOL_LENGTH-1 characters and an ellipsis. Spelled out rather than
@@ -5026,8 +5032,20 @@ function addressRowReport(page) {
     });
 }
 
+// Measured at the popup's 396x600 (POPUP_VIEWPORT). Every page in this
+// context, approval windows included, is otherwise 1280x720 whatever size
+// the extension asks for, and a page that wide never scrolls sideways. The
+// page is then put back to the size it had, so the size a later step runs at
+// does not depend on whether this one ran.
 async function assertAddressesFit(page, where) {
-    const report = await addressRowReport(page);
+    const sizeBefore = page.viewportSize();
+    await page.setViewportSize(POPUP_VIEWPORT);
+    let report;
+    try {
+        report = await addressRowReport(page);
+    } finally {
+        await page.setViewportSize(sizeBefore);
+    }
     assert(
         report.rows.length > 0,
         where + ": no address rows were rendered, so nothing was measured",