search-with-chatgpt-powered-by-openai-extension/docs/toolbar-verification.md

Toolbar action verification — 2026-10-12

The Ask ChatGPT toolbar button uses the existing Ask action: selected text is wrapped in the saved prompt; an empty or unreadable selection opens a blank chat. Saved opening preferences and shortening consent apply. No new permissions, popup, or settings were added.

Automated checks

• Fresh npm test before the PR: strict extension lint reports zero errors, warnings, or notices; all 61 tests across 11 test files pass; ZIP build passes.
• New toolbar regression covers the clicked tab rather than a later active tab, focused iframe selection with stale parent/sibling selections, empty/unfocused selection, saved prompt/background-tab preferences, and restricted-page fallback with the new-window preference.
• ZIP inspection excludes docs, tests, and local tool metadata.
• Independent read-only review found no concrete code defects; the requested browser checks for focus handling and shortening consent were then completed.

Firefox 157.0.1 checks

Launched with npm run dev in temporary headless profiles. Marionette clicked Firefox's actual action button; it did not call the extension handler directly.

• Pinned toolbar: top-frame selection reaches the ChatGPT URL; no selection opens https://chatgpt.com/.
• Same-origin and cross-origin iframe selections win over a stale top-frame selection.
• about:config opens a blank chat.
• Unpinned action in the extensions menu preserves top-frame and cross-origin iframe selections, including a stale parent selection.
• Changing the prompt through the options UI works with context-menu mode Off.
• A long selection opens the shortening-consent dialog. Cancel closes it without opening ChatGPT.
• The pinned icon was visually confirmed in Firefox.

The selection reader retains the shortcut's focused-leaf-frame filter. Actual mouse activation through Firefox's toolbar and extensions menu preserved the necessary focus in these checks; no broader frame scan was introduced.

The maintainer subsequently confirmed the toolbar button works during desktop use. Every editable field type and the full release regression matrix in AGENTS.md were not rechecked; existing shortcut-specific manual release checks remain outstanding.

ChatGPT submission limitation

These checks establish that the extension opens the expected URL and preserves the selection. They do not guarantee that ChatGPT accepts or automatically submits the prompt.

During follow-up testing, URL-supplied prompts showed a ChatGPT verification error while signed out on affected machines. Signing in allowed the prompt to fill the composer, but it could still require Enter. The verification failure also occurred when the URL was entered directly with this extension disabled. The cause remains unconfirmed.

The pre-toolbar version and this version generate the same https://chatgpt.com/?q=hello URL for a default Ask action; the address-bar search definition is also unchanged. No forced submission or workaround was added.