Amber sign-in on Android works past the first request, and a migrated profile no longer keeps its released placeholder address

Jarryd (DM, 2026-10-24): on Android he could not sign in with Amber and had to paste his nsec, and his profile page showed the temporary name he had picked while the editor showed his real one.

Amber: Chrome lets a page open another app only on the heels of a tap. The Sign-in tap carried the get_public_key request, but the request the login fires once the key is back (decrypt the backup, sign the relay list…) had no tap behind it, so Chrome dropped the nostrsigner: navigation with a console warning the page never sees ("Navigation is blocked") and the card spun forever. Reproduced on Adam's Pixel 9 with Amber 6.6.9 (Amber 4.1.3 did not even parse the web request). Now a request without a user activation behind it waits for one: the card says the signer has another request and offers an "Open signer app" button that launches it from the tap; a launch that leaves the page in front (never hidden) is treated as blocked too and gets the same button. The clipboard is still read on return (that part worked).

Profile: the migration released the placeholder name and repointed lud16/nip05 to the new one, while the legacy-avatar import ran at the same moment, read the same old kind 0, and republished it nine seconds later with the placeholder address back ([email protected], dead on both coinos.io and v3). Kind-0 publishes now go one at a time, merge over the newest copy this session sent, and are stamped strictly later than it (relays keep the lower id of two with the same second). The profile page shows the claimed address instead of a same-domain name that is no longer ours, and once the domain confirms the old name is dead it repoints the kind 0 in the background (healStaleAddress), so zaps to the published lightning address reach the wallet again.

tools/profile-publish-race-test.js plays the migration's two publishes at once against an in-memory relay. tools/amber-login-test.js and identity-test pass; name-migration-test and avatar-profile-test fail the same way on the previous commit.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/features/nostrlogin.js b/src/features/nostrlogin.js
index f7f9e16..f39f9c3 100644
--- a/src/features/nostrlogin.js
+++ b/src/features/nostrlogin.js
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ import { qrSvg } from '../qr.js';
 import {
   extensionSigner, bunkerSigner, keySigner, parseNostrSecret,
   walletForSigner, publishWalletBackup, fetchWalletBackup, nostrConnect, nostrConnectPending, resumeBunker,
-  amberAvailable, amberSigner, amberPending, amberDeliver, amberCancel, onAmberChange } from '../nostr-login.js';
+  amberAvailable, amberSigner, amberPending, amberDeliver, amberCancel, amberOpen, onAmberChange } from '../nostr-login.js';
 
 // The nostr ostrich, in the brand's monochrome.
 const OSTRICH = '<svg width="23" height="23" style="display:block" viewBox="0 0 2000 2000" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><defs><linearGradient id="ng" x1="0" y1="0" x2="1" y2="1"><stop offset="0%" stop-color="#B84FE8"/><stop offset="100%" stop-color="#6D28D9"/></linearGradient></defs><circle cx="1000" cy="1000" r="1000" fill="url(#ng)"/><g transform="translate(1000 1000) scale(0.82) translate(-1000 -1000)"><path d="M1574.29 770.408C1532.04 840.612 1445.92 888.367 1437.96 892.449C1421.84 901.02 1415.92 913.469 1416.94 932.041C1417.96 950.612 1413.47 1042.65 1357.35 1083.27C1328.57 1104.08 1212.45 1131.02 1159.18 1140C1131.84 1144.69 1125.51 1153.06 1110.41 1162.04C1090 1174.69 1017.55 1275.1 1005.31 1297.35C1006.94 1297.14 1233.67 1226.73 1243.88 1225.1C1270.82 1221.02 1291.22 1228.78 1304.49 1248.37C1317.14 1267.14 1329.59 1286.12 1342.04 1305.1C1346.53 1311.84 1350.82 1318.78 1355.1 1325.71L1359.59 1332.86C1361.22 1335.51 1363.47 1338.57 1364.49 1342.65C1365.31 1345.51 1367.14 1355.1 1361.63 1360.82C1356.53 1366.12 1347.76 1366.12 1343.06 1364.9C1338.57 1363.67 1331.84 1361.02 1326.33 1356.53L1318.78 1350.2C1312.86 1345.1 1301.63 1342.65 1292.86 1343.06C1282.65 1343.47 1269.18 1340.2 1262.65 1336.12C1250 1327.96 1246.73 1307.55 1246.73 1307.35C1245.1 1300.61 1240.2 1298.78 1235.71 1298.78C1227.55 1298.57 1221.22 1301.02 1214.69 1302.86C1184.9 1311.84 1155.31 1321.02 1125.51 1330.41L1082.86 1343.67C1061.84 1350.2 1040.82 1356.73 1020 1363.67C1014.29 1365.51 1008.78 1368.37 1002.86 1371.43C1000.41 1372.65 997.959 1373.88 995.51 1375.1C993.061 1376.33 990.408 1377.76 987.959 1379.18C982.449 1382.24 976.531 1385.51 970 1387.35C948.776 1393.67 930.204 1384.49 921.429 1363.27C915.714 1349.59 920.816 1322.45 923.878 1314.49C943.061 1264.69 1005.51 1170.82 1005.51 1170.2C1004.49 1169.8 936.327 1197.14 925.102 1205.71C894.286 1229.18 822.041 1284.69 821.02 1290C816.327 1314.69 801.02 1333.27 777.551 1342.45C760.612 1348.98 750.408 1362.45 740.408 1375.51C740.408 1375.51 559.388 1624.9 547.143 1638.37C543.469 1642.45 509.592 1677.96 500.612 1694.49C498.571 1698.57 490.816 1714.9 488.776 1718.98C487.143 1722.24 483.469 1731.02 469.592 1730.41C455.714 1729.8 455.306 1710.41 454.694 1702.04C453.265 1681.43 457.755 1661.22 468.571 1640C469.592 1637.96 481.837 1619.39 477.347 1604.49C473.265 1591.43 469.388 1571.22 475.51 1561.02C485.102 1544.9 502.041 1544.29 524.694 1540.61C540.408 1537.96 551.837 1530.2 562.857 1514.08C586.122 1480.2 673.674 1355.92 693.469 1327.14C698.776 1319.59 702.857 1309.8 704.694 1300.2C710.408 1271.22 727.959 1251.02 758.571 1238.57C765.102 1235.92 886.939 1134.08 886.939 1121.02C886.939 1111.63 873.674 1106.53 863.469 1103.67C862.041 1103.27 785.51 1083.47 750.612 1067.55C731.633 1058.98 717.347 1051.43 700.408 1039.18C677.347 1022.24 631.225 1030.41 624.49 1031.43C591.837 1036.12 567.551 1050.82 540 1069.39C535.102 1072.86 510 1081.84 497.347 1074.69C472.653 1060.61 418.367 1035.31 398.367 1004.9C389.184 990.816 390.408 967.959 396.939 942.653C417.959 883.878 448.98 857.551 506.327 841.633C547.143 827.551 629.388 824.49 668.98 821.429C671.633 820.612 759.388 818.571 821.02 786.939C862.041 765.918 983.878 684.898 1159.18 690.408C1230 692.653 1363.88 761.837 1415.51 763.878C1468.16 766.122 1494.49 760.204 1524.9 728.776C1533.47 719.796 1570 641.02 1535.51 597.959C1522.65 582.041 1509.39 567.755 1494.08 554.694C1473.47 537.143 1452.04 520.408 1433.47 500.612C1392.45 457.143 1379.8 397.755 1399.18 351.429C1411.63 318.98 1437.76 304.898 1475.51 312.245C1502.04 317.347 1521.43 341.225 1540.41 353.878C1551.02 361.02 1568.78 365.102 1580.41 367.959C1595.1 371.429 1606.12 382.653 1605.51 390.204C1604.9 397.755 1585.51 404.286 1566.94 402.857C1544.9 401.429 1507.14 401.225 1484.49 408.776C1469.39 414.286 1462.65 431.02 1467.14 447.551C1470.82 461.02 1499.59 485.102 1510.41 494.082C1532.04 511.837 1555.1 527.959 1573.06 550.204C1593.27 575.51 1603.88 604.286 1607.14 636.122C1612.04 684.898 1599.18 728.776 1574.29 770.408Z" fill="#fff"/></g></svg>';
@@ -408,7 +408,13 @@ export function nostrLoginFeature(ctx) {
     if (!p) return null;
     const e = ui.amberPaste || (ui.amberPaste = { text: '' });
     return h('div', { class: 'card col amber-wait', style: 'gap:8px' },
-      h('div', { class: 'row gap6', style: 'align-items:center' }, h('span', { class: 'spinner sm' }), h('span', { class: 'small' }, t('nlAmberWait'))),
+      // a request waiting for a tap (see amberOpen): the Open button is the
+      // way forward, not the spinner
+      p.needsTap
+        ? h('div', { class: 'col', style: 'gap:6px' },
+            h('div', { class: 'small' }, t('nlAmberTap')),
+            h('button', { class: 'btn-primary btn-block amber-open', type: 'button', onClick: () => amberOpen() }, t('nlAmberOpen')))
+        : h('div', { class: 'row gap6', style: 'align-items:center' }, h('span', { class: 'spinner sm' }), h('span', { class: 'small' }, t('nlAmberWait'))),
       h('div', { class: 'small muted' }, t('nlAmberPasteHint')),
       h('div', { class: 'row gap6' },
         h('input', { type: 'text', class: 'grow amber-paste', placeholder: t('nlAmberPastePh'), value: e.text, autocapitalize: 'none', autocomplete: 'off', spellcheck: 'false',