Merge pull request 'chore: release 1.2.0' (#14) from develop into main

Reviewed-on: https://git.zavage.net/Zavage-Software/search-with-chatgpt-powered-by-openai-extension/pulls/14

.gitea/workflows/firefox-extension.yml

@@ -2,13 +2,31 @@ name: Firefox Extension CI
 
 on:
   pull_request:
+    # edited: removing the WIP: prefix starts the real run.
+    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened, edited]
   push:
     branches:
       - develop
       - main
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+# The gate and concurrency use the github.* context, Gitea's alias for gitea.*:
+# it is the form the pattern was canaried with and the one pr-flow detects.
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
+  # Cancel superseded PR runs, never a push run: main's push uploads the package.
+  cancel-in-progress: ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' }}
 
 jobs:
   validate:
+    # WIP gate: skip PRs titled WIP: so early PRs cost no run per push. Gate on
+    # the title and nothing else, since a skipped job reports success on the
+    # required check (see ~/.claude/docs/gitea-ci-pattern.md).
+    if: >-
+      github.event_name != 'pull_request' || (
+        !startsWith(github.event.pull_request.title, 'WIP:') &&
+        !startsWith(github.event.pull_request.title, '[WIP]')
+      )
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - name: Check out repository

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,28 +2,34 @@
 
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. See [commit-and-tag-version](https://github.com/absolute-version/commit-and-tag-version).
 
-## Unreleased
+## [1.2.0] (2026-10-18)
+
+The first update on addons.mozilla.org since 1.0. It also delivers everything
+in 1.1.0, which was never published there.
 
 - Add an Ask ChatGPT toolbar button: use selected text or open a blank chat,
   honoring saved prompt and tab/window preferences. No new permissions.
+  Requires Firefox 112 or newer, like the other new entry points.
 - Add Off / Simple / Advanced context-menu modes with migration from the old
   visibility preference. Advanced provides selection presets and link/page URL
   actions, with optional translation and a preferred language or language dialog.
 - Preserve dedicated action instructions when shortening selections; ask before
   sending shortened text and reject URLs that cannot be sent intact.
+- Stay responsive with very large selections from the shortcut or toolbar: only
+  the part that can fit in the ChatGPT link is processed.
 - Add accessible action dialogs with cancellation and retry, remove the temporary
   model/effort URL probe, and document URL sharing. No new permissions.
 - Show up front, in the options panel and README, that ChatGPT may require
   signing in and that an unsent prompt needs Enter or Send.
-
+- Limit the prompt template to 1,000 characters, so an oversized template can
-
+  no longer stop every other setting from saving.
- * Options instructions now show the configured keyboard shortcut, update when
+- Show the configured keyboard shortcut in the options instructions, updating
-   it changes, and indicate when no shortcut is assigned. Added a button to
+  when it changes and indicating when none is assigned, with a button to open
-   open Firefox’s shortcut editor where supported.
+  Firefox’s shortcut editor where supported.
- * Shortened the context menu label to “Ask ChatGPT”.
+- Shorten the context menu label to “Ask ChatGPT”.
- * Added quick usage instructions and guidance for changing the search keyword
+- Add quick usage instructions and guidance for changing the search keyword
   and default engine in Firefox to the options panel.
- * Added a “Feedback or report a bug” link to the options panel and README.
+- Add a “Feedback or report a bug” link to the options panel and README.
 
 ## [1.1.0] (2026-07-30)
 
@@ -44,7 +50,7 @@ Adds an options panel and two new ways to reach ChatGPT.
  * Permissions added: storage, menus, activeTab. None of them adds a line to
    Firefox's install prompt.
 
-## [1.0.0]) (2024-06-09)
+## [1.0.0] (2024-06-09)
 
 First release of software.
 

README.md

@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ Open `about:addons`, select this extension, and choose the **Options** tab
   guarantee.
 - **Open in** — a new tab, a new background tab, or a new window.
 - **Prompt template** — wraps your text, for example `Explain simply: {query}`.
+  Up to 1,000 characters.
 
 Restore defaults resets extension preferences to Simple mode with translation
 hidden; it does not change Firefox's search engine or shortcut settings.

docs/superpowers/specs/2026-07-29-extension-options-design.md

@@ -96,6 +96,21 @@ send. The hypothesis that address-bar navigation might still be favoured
 (`Sec-Fetch-Site: none` being the most-trusted value) **does not hold in
 practice**.
 
+**Correction, 2026-10-18: `q` auto-submits again.**
+- **Signed out:** in headless Firefox 157, `chatgpt.com/?q=` sent the prompt
+  and ChatGPT answered with no keypress. This happened even when an unrelated
+  page navigated to the URL (`Sec-Fetch-Site: cross-site`).
+- **Maintainer's Firefox:** the same day, the maintainer reported that prompts
+  were sent without pressing Enter.
+- **A week earlier:** on 2026-10-12 the signed-out path showed a verification
+  error and the signed-in path still needed Enter
+  (`docs/toolbar-verification.md`).
+
+So this changed within a week and may differ between accounts. Treat both
+behaviours as possible. The copy rule below still applies, and the README
+already says ChatGPT decides whether a prompt is sent. Appendix B covers what
+this means for selection smuggling.
+
 No copy in the options panel, README, or AMO listing may say the query is
 *searched*, *sent*, or *asked* — only that ChatGPT opens **with the query filled
 in**. The two-keypress behaviour is an upstream ChatGPT change, not a defect in
@@ -698,7 +713,7 @@ by running commands against copies under `/tmp`; the repo itself was unmodified.
 | Parameter | Rating | Basis |
 |---|---|---|
 | `q` prefills | **Solid** | Dated 2026 sources; maintained tooling; OpenAI's own extension uses it; a live probe returned HTTP 200 with all parameters preserved. |
-| `q` auto-submits | **Refuted, and confirmed by first-hand test** | Prefill-only in every dated report since 2025-11-11. Tenable TRA-2025-22 documents OpenAI gating auto-submit on `Sec-Fetch-Site`. Reproduced 2026-07-29 in the maintainer's logged-in Firefox via this extension's own search-provider path. |
+| `q` auto-submits | **Varies; auto-submitting again as of 2026-10-18** | Prefill-only in every dated report from 2025-11-11, when Tenable TRA-2025-22 documented OpenAI gating auto-submit on `Sec-Fetch-Site`, and reproduced 2026-07-29 in the maintainer's logged-in Firefox. On 2026-10-18 it auto-submitted signed out, including after a cross-site navigation, and the maintainer reported the same in their own Firefox. See the correction under the `q` section. |
 | `model` honoured alongside `q` | **Uncertain** | An unresolved 2024-12-28 report says `q` forces GPT-4o regardless; counter-evidence exists from 2024–2025; no 2026 source positively confirms. Maintained tooling grades it experimental. |
 | Valid `model` slugs | **Uncertain** | No authoritative list; sightings rot (`gpt-4`, `o1-preview`, `gpt-4o`, `gpt-5-thinking`, `auto`, `instant`, `thinking`). |
 | `temporary-chat=true` | **Uncertain** | Community-confirmed originally; multiple reports of it not applying or reverting after the first message; OpenAI reworking the feature. |
@@ -790,6 +805,16 @@ composer until a human presses Enter. **Auto-submit deletes that checkpoint.**
 This is also why the context menu and shortcut remain safe *as long as they only
 prefill*.
 
+> **2026-10-18:** ChatGPT itself now auto-submits `?q=` prompts, at least for
+> some accounts (see the correction under the `q` section). While that holds,
+> the composer checkpoint above is gone for the context menu, toolbar button and
+> shortcut alike: hidden text in a selection can reach an answered prompt
+> without review. The extension still adds no submission of its own, and this
+> appendix's rejection stands. 1.2.0 ships with the behaviour known. Possible
+> mitigations, such as framing the default Ask prompt as data the way the preset
+> actions already do, or an option to review page-sourced text first, are open
+> follow-ups rather than part of this design.
+
 **`webNavigation.transitionType` is not a security boundary.** The signal looks
 right — a `gpt` search emits `transitionType: "generated"` with
 `transitionQualifiers: ["from_address_bar"]`, and content cannot forge those

lib/defaults.js

@@ -3,6 +3,12 @@
 
 export const OPEN_IN_VALUES = ["new-tab", "background-tab", "new-window"];
 
+// In UTF-16 units, as maxlength counts. Keeps the template far inside
+// storage.sync's 8192-byte item quota even when every character is a pasted
+// control character (six bytes once JSON-escaped), and far beyond any template
+// the 8,000-character URL budget could send.
+export const MAX_TEMPLATE_CHARS = 1000;
+
 export const DEFAULT_SETTINGS = {
   contextMenuMode: "simple",
   showTranslate: false,

lib/prepare-action.js

@@ -25,12 +25,23 @@ export function prepareAction(request) {
   }
   const resolved = { ...request, language };
   const serialize = text => serializePrompt(request.settings, renderPrompt(resolved, text));
+  // Each code point adds at least one URL character, so none past the first
+  // MAX_URL_CHARS can fit. Capping first keeps a select-all on a huge page from
+  // costing seconds of re-encoding. A capped source is never sent as ready: its
+  // kept prefix may trim down to something that fits and silently drop the rest.
+  const points = [];
+  let capped = false;
+  for (const point of source) {
+    if (points.length === MAX_URL_CHARS) { capped = true; break; }
+    points.push(point);
+  }
+  if (!capped) {
     const url = serialize(source);
     if (url.length <= MAX_URL_CHARS) return { kind: 'ready', url };
+  }
   if (isUrl) return error('This URL is too long to send intact. No part of it has been sent.');
   const marker = '\n[Selected text shortened]';
   if (serialize(marker).length >= MAX_URL_CHARS) return error('The prompt instructions are too long. Shorten your prompt template and try again.');
-  const points = Array.from(source);
   let low = 0, high = points.length;
   while (low < high) {
     const mid = Math.ceil((low + high) / 2);

lib/settings.js

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { DEFAULT_SETTINGS, OPEN_IN_VALUES } from "./defaults.js";
+import { DEFAULT_SETTINGS, MAX_TEMPLATE_CHARS, OPEN_IN_VALUES } from "./defaults.js";
 
 export function normalizeLanguage(value) {
   if (typeof value !== "string") return "";
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ export function mergeSettings(stored) {
   if (OPEN_IN_VALUES.includes(stored.openIn)) {
     merged.openIn = stored.openIn;
   }
-  if (typeof stored.promptTemplate === "string") {
+  if (typeof stored.promptTemplate === "string" && stored.promptTemplate.length <= MAX_TEMPLATE_CHARS) {
     merged.promptTemplate = stored.promptTemplate;
   }
   return merged;

manifest.json

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 {
   "name": "Search with ChatGPT powered by OpenAI!",
-  "description": "Adds a ChatGPT search engine",
+  "description": "Adds a ChatGPT search engine, plus a right-click menu, toolbar button and shortcut that open ChatGPT with your selected text.",
   "manifest_version": 2,
   "author": "Mathew Guest <mat@zavage.net>",
   "homepage_url": "https://zavage-software.com/portfolio/search-with-ChatGPT",
-  "version": "1.1",
+  "version": "1.2",
   "icons": {
     "16": "icons/powered-by-openai-icon-16x16.png",
     "32": "icons/powered-by-openai-icon-32x32.png",

options/options.html

@@ -80,8 +80,8 @@
 
   <div class="field">
     <label for="promptTemplate">Prompt template</label>
-    <input type="text" id="promptTemplate" spellcheck="false" />
+    <input type="text" id="promptTemplate" spellcheck="false" maxlength="1000" />
-    <p class="hint"><code>{query}</code> is replaced with your selected text. Used by Ask normally, Simple mode, the toolbar button, and the keyboard shortcut. Other advanced actions use their own prompts.</p>
+    <p class="hint"><code>{query}</code> is replaced with your selected text. Used by Ask normally, Simple mode, the toolbar button, and the keyboard shortcut. Other advanced actions use their own prompts. Up to 1,000 characters.</p>
   </div>
 
   <div class="actions">

package-lock.json

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "search-with-chatgpt-powered-by-openai-extension",
-  "version": "1.0.0",
+  "version": "1.2.0",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "search-with-chatgpt-powered-by-openai-extension",
-      "version": "1.0.0",
+      "version": "1.2.0",
       "devDependencies": {
         "web-ext": "10.5.0"
       },

package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "search-with-chatgpt-powered-by-openai-extension",
-  "version": "1.1.0",
+  "version": "1.2.0",
   "private": true,
   "type": "module",
   "description": "Development tooling for the Search with ChatGPT Firefox extension.",

test/prepare-action.test.js

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import test from 'node:test';
 import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
 import { DEFAULT_SETTINGS } from '../lib/defaults.js';
+import { MAX_URL_CHARS } from '../lib/build-url.js';
 const { prepareAction } = await import('../lib/prepare-action.js').catch(()=>({}));
 const req = (overrides={}) => ({actionId:'ask',source:'Hello',settings:{...DEFAULT_SETTINGS},...overrides});
 test('ready actions preserve source and hints, translation asks only when needed', () => {
@@ -49,3 +50,22 @@ test('long selections preserve instructions, repetition and Unicode with explici
   const translated=prepareAction(req({actionId:'translate',language:'Spanish',source:'x'.repeat(20000)}));
   assert.equal(translated.kind,'shortened');assert.match(new URL(translated.url).searchParams.get('q'), /Spanish/);
 });
+test('huge selections are capped before shortening, with identical output', () => {
+  assert.equal(typeof prepareAction, 'function');
+  // Select-all on a very large page; shortening this took over a second uncapped.
+  const source='😀 word '.repeat(625000);
+  const started=performance.now();
+  const out=prepareAction(req({source}));
+  const elapsed=performance.now()-started;
+  assert.equal(out.kind,'shortened');
+  assert.ok(elapsed<250,`took ${elapsed.toFixed(0)} ms`);
+  const capped=Array.from(source).slice(0,MAX_URL_CHARS).join('');
+  assert.deepEqual(prepareAction(req({source:capped})),out);
+});
+test('a selection too long to send whole always needs consent, even if its start would fit', () => {
+  assert.equal(typeof prepareAction, 'function');
+  // The first MAX_URL_CHARS code points trim down to "a"; sending just that would drop the rest unasked.
+  const out=prepareAction(req({source:'a'+' '.repeat(MAX_URL_CHARS)+'b'}));
+  assert.equal(out.kind,'shortened');
+  assert.ok(new URL(out.url).searchParams.get('q').includes('[Selected text shortened]'));
+});

test/settings.test.js

@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 import test from "node:test";
 import assert from "node:assert/strict";
 
-import { DEFAULT_SETTINGS } from "../lib/defaults.js";
+import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
+
+import { DEFAULT_SETTINGS, MAX_TEMPLATE_CHARS } from "../lib/defaults.js";
 import { mergeSettings } from "../lib/settings.js";
 
 test("empty object yields the defaults", () => {
@@ -67,6 +69,30 @@ test("wrong types fall back to the default", () => {
   assert.equal(merged.promptTemplate, DEFAULT_SETTINGS.promptTemplate);
 });
 
+test("a prompt template over the length limit falls back to the default", () => {
+  assert.equal(typeof MAX_TEMPLATE_CHARS, "number");
+  const atLimit = "x".repeat(MAX_TEMPLATE_CHARS);
+  assert.equal(mergeSettings({ promptTemplate: atLimit }).promptTemplate, atLimit);
+  assert.equal(mergeSettings({ promptTemplate: `${atLimit}x` }).promptTemplate,
+    DEFAULT_SETTINGS.promptTemplate);
+});
+
+// storage.sync rejects any item over 8192 bytes (key plus JSON value), and the
+// options page writes every field in one set(), so one oversized template would
+// make every later save fail. The worst character is a pasted control
+// character, which JSON escapes to six bytes.
+test("a template at the limit fits storage.sync's per-item quota in the worst case", () => {
+  const worst = "\u0001".repeat(MAX_TEMPLATE_CHARS);
+  const bytes = new TextEncoder().encode("promptTemplate" + JSON.stringify(worst)).length;
+  assert.ok(bytes <= 8192, `${bytes} bytes`);
+});
+
+test("the options page enforces the same template limit", () => {
+  const html = readFileSync(new URL("../options/options.html", import.meta.url), "utf8");
+  const input = html.match(/<input[^>]*id="promptTemplate"[^>]*>/)?.[0] ?? "";
+  assert.equal(input.match(/maxlength="(\d+)"/)?.[1], String(MAX_TEMPLATE_CHARS));
+});
+
 test("an out-of-range openIn falls back to the default", () => {
   assert.equal(mergeSettings({ openIn: "teleport" }).openIn, DEFAULT_SETTINGS.openIn);
   assert.equal(mergeSettings({ openIn: "" }).openIn, DEFAULT_SETTINGS.openIn);