fix(ext-ui): direct :href install button (Firefox needs anchor click, not programmatic navigation) + manifest version detection ignores -latest.xpi alias — Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

backend/app/api/extension.py

@@ -93,10 +93,20 @@ def _read_manifest_sync() -> dict | None:
     asyncio.to_thread (ASYNC240: no pathlib I/O in async functions)."""
     if not XPI_DIR.is_dir():
         return None
-    xpis = sorted(XPI_DIR.glob("fabledcurator-*.xpi"), key=lambda p: p.stat().st_mtime)
-    if not xpis:
+    # Exclude the `fabledcurator-latest.xpi` alias when picking the file to
+    # extract a version from — it's a copy of the latest versioned XPI,
+    # written at the same mtime by build.yml, and would otherwise tie or
+    # win the sort (operator-flagged 2026-05-26: UI displayed "v latest"
+    # because `_extract_version("fabledcurator-latest.xpi")` returns
+    # the literal "latest"). The alias still serves as `latest_url`.
+    versioned = [
+        p for p in XPI_DIR.glob("fabledcurator-*.xpi")
+        if p.name != "fabledcurator-latest.xpi"
+    ]
+    if not versioned:
         return None
-    latest = xpis[-1]
+    versioned.sort(key=lambda p: p.stat().st_mtime)
+    latest = versioned[-1]
     return {
         "installed": True,
         "version": _extract_version(latest.name),