diff --git a/src/trx-client/trx-frontend/trx-frontend-http/assets/web/index.html b/src/trx-client/trx-frontend/trx-frontend-http/assets/web/index.html
index 1f69e61d..45bc6bc1 100644
--- a/src/trx-client/trx-frontend/trx-frontend-http/assets/web/index.html
+++ b/src/trx-client/trx-frontend/trx-frontend-http/assets/web/index.html
@@ -52,9 +52,12 @@ SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
             <svg class="tab-icon" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#icon-bookmark"/></svg>
             <span class="tab-label">Bookmarks</span>
           </button>
-          <button class="tab" data-tab="digital-modes">
+          <button class="tab" data-tab="digital-modes" aria-label="Digital modes">
             <svg class="tab-icon" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#icon-digital"/></svg>
             <span class="tab-label">Digital modes</span>
+            <!-- A fifth of a phone screen does not hold "Digital modes"; the
+                 button keeps the full name for assistive tech. -->
+            <span class="tab-label-short" aria-hidden="true">Digital</span>
           </button>
           <button class="tab" data-tab="map">
             <svg class="tab-icon" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#icon-map"/></svg>
diff --git a/src/trx-client/trx-frontend/trx-frontend-http/assets/web/style.css b/src/trx-client/trx-frontend/trx-frontend-http/assets/web/style.css
index f9ec6054..f0e0311f 100644
--- a/src/trx-client/trx-frontend/trx-frontend-http/assets/web/style.css
+++ b/src/trx-client/trx-frontend/trx-frontend-http/assets/web/style.css
@@ -1717,6 +1717,8 @@ small { color: var(--text-muted); }
   flex-shrink: 0;
 }
 .tab-label { display: block; }
+/* Only the bottom nav is short of room. */
+.tab-label-short { display: none; }
 .tab-more-icon { display: none; }
 .about-grid { display: grid; grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fill, minmax(320px, 1fr)); gap: 1rem; }
 .about-card { background: var(--card-bg); border: 1px solid var(--border); border-radius: 0.5rem; padding: 0; overflow: hidden; }
@@ -2592,7 +2594,6 @@ button.map-qso-card:focus-visible {
   box-shadow: 0 16px 30px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.24);
   backdrop-filter: blur(6px);
   -webkit-backdrop-filter: blur(6px);
-  will-change: backdrop-filter;
   overflow: auto;
   transition: opacity 140ms ease, transform 140ms ease, visibility 140ms ease;
 }
@@ -2610,9 +2611,15 @@ button.map-qso-card:focus-visible {
 .map-overlay-filters.is-hidden {
   display: none;
 }
-/* With the filters collapsed the bar has no reason to span the map. */
+/* With the filters collapsed the bar has no reason to span the map.
+   It keeps both anchors and shrinks inside them, rather than dropping `left`
+   and being sized by shrink-to-fit: the anchored box is a size the browser
+   already knows, and an absolutely positioned, backdrop-filtered, composited
+   box being asked to size itself from its content is the shape of thing that
+   renders as nothing on engines other than the one it was written against. */
 .map-overlay-panel.filters-hidden {
-  left: auto;
+  width: fit-content;
+  margin-left: auto;
 }
 .map-overlay-actions {
   display: flex;
@@ -2739,7 +2746,6 @@ button.map-qso-card:focus-visible {
   box-shadow: 0 16px 30px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
   backdrop-filter: blur(6px);
   -webkit-backdrop-filter: blur(6px);
-  will-change: backdrop-filter;
   overflow: auto;
 }
 .map-band-legend.is-empty {
@@ -3892,7 +3898,18 @@ body[data-operator-layout="broadcast"] #cw-bar-overlay {
   input.status-input, select.status-input { font-size: 1.1rem; }
   :root { --header-waterfall-overlap: 0rem; }
   .controls-tray-scroll { overflow-x: auto; }
-  .controls-tray { width: 100%; min-width: 0; padding-left: 0.85rem; padding-right: 0.85rem; }
+  /* A grid column sizes to its content by default, so one row wider than the
+     phone — the mode picker, six buttons across — dragged the whole tray out
+     with it and left the rest to be found by scrolling sideways. `minmax(0,
+     1fr)` lets the column be as narrow as the screen and the rows wrap inside
+     it. */
+  .controls-tray {
+    width: 100%;
+    min-width: 0;
+    grid-template-columns: minmax(0, 1fr);
+    padding-left: 0.85rem;
+    padding-right: 0.85rem;
+  }
   .freq-inline { gap: 0.5rem; flex-wrap: wrap; }
   .header-text { width: auto; min-width: 0; flex: 0 1 auto; }
   .header-main {
@@ -4013,10 +4030,6 @@ body[data-operator-layout="broadcast"] #cw-bar-overlay {
     box-shadow: inset 0 1px 0 color-mix(in srgb, #ffffff 8%, transparent);
   }
   .tab-icon, .tab-more-icon { display: block; }
-  /* Shorten long tab labels to keep bottom nav compact */
-  .tab[data-tab="bookmarks"] .tab-label { font-size: 0.6rem; }
-  .tab[data-tab="digital-modes"] .tab-label  { font-size: 0.6rem; }
-  .tab[data-tab="statistics"] .tab-label { font-size: 0.6rem; }
   .tab[data-tab="statistics"], .tab[data-tab="recorder"],
   .tab[data-tab="settings"], .tab[data-tab="about"] { display: none; }
   .mobile-more-btn { display: flex; }
@@ -4030,7 +4043,48 @@ body[data-operator-layout="broadcast"] #cw-bar-overlay {
     color: var(--accent-text);
     background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--accent-green) 10%, transparent);
   }
-  .tab .tab-label, .tab[data-tab] .tab-label { font-size: 0.75rem; }
+  /* The bottom nav divides the bar between its five destinations, so a tab is
+     about a fifth of the screen and the label has to live inside that. Sharing
+     the width evenly beats sizing each tab to its own label, which gave
+     "Digital modes" the same room as "Map" and clipped it mid-word. */
+  .tab-bar-nav .tab {
+    flex: 1 1 0;
+    min-width: 0;
+    padding-left: 0.15rem;
+    padding-right: 0.15rem;
+  }
+  .tab .tab-label, .tab[data-tab] .tab-label {
+    display: block;
+    max-width: 100%;
+    overflow: hidden;
+    white-space: nowrap;
+    text-overflow: ellipsis;
+    font-size: 0.75rem;
+  }
+  /* The long ones, sized against the screen rather than at a fixed size.
+     A tab is a fifth of the viewport, so what fits in it is a function of the
+     viewport — and only roughly of the font size, since how wide a platform
+     renders a word varies by ten per cent or more between machines. A fixed
+     0.6rem fit here with ten pixels to spare and clipped in CI.
+
+     (These rules also used to sit above the one that sets the size for all
+     labels — identical specificity, later in the file, so nothing was ever
+     shortened.) */
+  .tab[data-tab="bookmarks"] .tab-label,
+  .tab[data-tab="statistics"] .tab-label {
+    font-size: clamp(0.46rem, 2.2vw, 0.62rem);
+  }
+  /* "Digital modes" does not fit at any size worth reading, so the nav shows
+     the short form and the button carries the full one as its label. */
+  .tab[data-tab="digital-modes"] .tab-label { display: none; }
+  .tab[data-tab="digital-modes"] .tab-label-short {
+    display: block;
+    max-width: 100%;
+    overflow: hidden;
+    white-space: nowrap;
+    text-overflow: ellipsis;
+    font-size: clamp(0.46rem, 2.2vw, 0.62rem);
+  }
   .decoder-tab-select {
     display: block;
     width: 100%;
@@ -4068,10 +4122,18 @@ body[data-operator-layout="broadcast"] #cw-bar-overlay {
     flex: 0 0 auto;
     min-width: 0;
   }
+  /* The rig's name is the widest thing in the bar and it does not need to be:
+     139 px of a 338 px bar went on it, and everything else was pushed into the
+     overflow menu to make room. Enough for a short name, ellipsised past that,
+     with the full name still in the menu it opens. */
   .header-rig-switch select,
   .header-style-pick select {
     width: auto;
     min-width: 0;
+    max-width: 6.5rem;
+    padding-right: 0.2rem;
+    font-size: 0.8rem;
+    text-overflow: ellipsis;
   }
   .header-bar-btn {
     flex: 0 0 auto;
@@ -4102,12 +4164,20 @@ body[data-operator-layout="broadcast"] #cw-bar-overlay {
   .mult-col {
     min-width: 0;
   }
+  /* These are given the width of their column below; with padding on a
+     content box that is the column's width *plus* the padding, which is what
+     pushed the page itself sideways by a dozen pixels. */
   .wavelength-display,
   .sig-strength-display,
   .jog-step,
   .jog-mult {
+    box-sizing: border-box;
     width: 100%;
   }
+  .sig-strength-display {
+    min-width: 0;
+    font-size: 1.05rem;
+  }
   .jog-step button,
   .jog-mult button {
     flex: 1 1 0;
@@ -4958,9 +5028,15 @@ body[data-operator-layout="broadcast"] #cw-bar-overlay {
 
 /* ── Phone layout (≤ 520px) ───────────────────────────────────────────── */
 @media (max-width: 520px) {
-  /* Single-column controls: jog first, then mode, then power */
+  /* Single-column controls: jog first, then mode, then power.
+     `nowrap` is the whole point of it. The base rule wraps, and a *column*
+     that wraps starts a second column when its items are taller than it is —
+     which put the transmit controls at x=400 on a 390 px screen, off the side
+     of a tray 354 px wide, reachable only by a horizontal scroll with nothing
+     to say it was there. */
   .controls-row {
     flex-direction: column;
+    flex-wrap: nowrap;
     align-items: stretch;
   }
   .controls-col-center {
@@ -6149,8 +6225,16 @@ body[data-operator-layout="broadcast"] #cw-bar-overlay {
 .controls-tray { container-type: inline-size; container-name: controls; }
 .decode-history-table-wrap { container-type: inline-size; container-name: decode-table; }
 
-@container controls (max-width: 600px) {
-  .controls-tray .controls-row { flex-wrap: wrap; }
+/* Wrapping a narrow tray's columns onto more lines is right while the row runs
+   left to right. Below the phone breakpoint the row is a column, and wrap there
+   means "start another column" — which is how the transmit controls ended up
+   beside the tray instead of under it, off the side of the screen. This rule
+   outranks the phone one (two classes to its one) and sits later in the file,
+   so it has to exclude itself rather than be overridden. */
+@media (min-width: 521px) {
+  @container controls (max-width: 600px) {
+    .controls-tray .controls-row { flex-wrap: wrap; }
+  }
 }
 @container decode-table (max-width: 500px) {
   .decode-history-table th:nth-child(n+4),
diff --git a/src/trx-client/trx-frontend/trx-frontend-http/frontend/package.json b/src/trx-client/trx-frontend/trx-frontend-http/frontend/package.json
index 60334cc3..429e0f2f 100644
--- a/src/trx-client/trx-frontend/trx-frontend-http/frontend/package.json
+++ b/src/trx-client/trx-frontend/trx-frontend-http/frontend/package.json
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
     "typecheck": "tsc --project tsconfig.json && tsc --project tsconfig.worker.json",
     "lint": "eslint \"src/**/*.ts\" \"tests/**/*.mjs\" build.mjs --no-error-on-unmatched-pattern",
     "test": "node --test tests/*.test.mjs",
-    "test:browser": "node tests/browser-smoke.mjs && node tests/spectrum-layout.mjs && node tests/decode-flow.mjs && node tests/tune-links.mjs",
+    "test:browser": "node tests/browser-smoke.mjs && node tests/spectrum-layout.mjs && node tests/decode-flow.mjs && node tests/tune-links.mjs && node tests/mobile-layout.mjs",
     "verify-generated": "npm run generate-types && npm run build && git diff --exit-code -- ../assets/web/generated src/api/generated.ts"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
diff --git a/src/trx-client/trx-frontend/trx-frontend-http/frontend/tests/mobile-layout.mjs b/src/trx-client/trx-frontend/trx-frontend-http/frontend/tests/mobile-layout.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ba0f8793
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/trx-client/trx-frontend/trx-frontend-http/frontend/tests/mobile-layout.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,149 @@
+// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Stan Grams <sjg@haxx.space>
+//
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+
+// What a phone gets. A page that scrolls sideways is a page with something on
+// it nobody will find: the transmit controls spent this whole period laid out
+// at x=400 on a 390 px screen, off the side of a tray 354 px wide, reachable
+// only by a horizontal scroll with nothing to say it was there.
+
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+import { chromium } from "playwright-core";
+import { startBrowser, startWebFixture } from "./web-fixture.mjs";
+
+/* global document, getComputedStyle */
+
+const PHONES = [430, 390, 360];
+
+const fixture = await startWebFixture({ spectrum: true, tx: true });
+const { browser, page, runtimeErrors } = await startBrowser(chromium);
+
+try {
+  for (const width of PHONES) {
+    await page.setViewportSize({ width, height: 900 });
+    await page.goto(fixture.origin, { waitUntil: "domcontentloaded" });
+    await page.locator("#content").waitFor({ state: "visible" });
+    await page.waitForTimeout(1800);
+
+    const layout = await page.evaluate((viewport) => {
+      const box = (element) => element.getBoundingClientRect();
+      // Anything laid out past the right edge of the screen.
+      const past = [];
+      const walk = (element) => {
+        const rect = box(element);
+        if (rect.width > 0 && rect.right > viewport + 1) {
+          past.push(`${element.tagName.toLowerCase()}${element.id ? `#${element.id}` : ""}`);
+        }
+        for (const child of element.children) walk(child);
+      };
+      walk(document.getElementById("content"));
+      const tx = document.getElementById("tx-power-col");
+      return {
+        documentScroll: document.documentElement.scrollWidth,
+        past: past.slice(0, 6),
+        txRight: tx ? Math.round(box(tx).right) : null,
+        txVisible: tx ? getComputedStyle(tx).display !== "none" : false,
+        rigSelect: Math.round(box(document.getElementById("header-rig-switch-select")).width),
+      };
+    }, width);
+
+    assert.equal(layout.documentScroll, width,
+      `the page scrolls sideways at ${width}px (${layout.documentScroll}px wide)`);
+    assert.deepEqual(layout.past, [],
+      `laid out past the screen at ${width}px: ${layout.past.join(", ")}`);
+    if (layout.txVisible) {
+      assert.ok(layout.txRight <= width + 1,
+        `the transmit controls end at ${layout.txRight}px on a ${width}px screen`);
+    }
+    // The rig's name was taking 139px of a 338px bar and pushing everything
+    // else into the overflow menu.
+    assert.ok(layout.rigSelect <= 112,
+      `the rig picker is ${layout.rigSelect}px wide at ${width}px`);
+
+    // The bottom nav keeps its labels — that is what makes it navigation
+    // rather than five glyphs — and a label used to overflow its tab and run
+    // into the next one: "Bookmarks igital mode".
+    //
+    // What is asserted is that a label stays inside its own tab and, if it is
+    // too long for it, ends in an ellipsis. Not that it fits: how wide a
+    // platform draws a word varies by more than ten per cent, so "it fits"
+    // passes on the machine it was written on and fails on the next one —
+    // which is what a fixed font size did here.
+    const nav = await page.evaluate(() => {
+      const bar = document.querySelector(".tab-bar-nav");
+      return [...bar.querySelectorAll(".tab")]
+        .filter((tab) => tab.getBoundingClientRect().width > 0)
+        .map((tab) => {
+          const label = [...tab.querySelectorAll(".tab-label, .tab-label-short")]
+            .find((span) => getComputedStyle(span).display !== "none");
+          const style = label ? getComputedStyle(label) : null;
+          const labelBox = label?.getBoundingClientRect();
+          const tabBox = tab.getBoundingClientRect();
+          return {
+            text: (label?.textContent ?? "").trim(),
+            escapes: labelBox
+              ? labelBox.left < tabBox.left - 1 || labelBox.right > tabBox.right + 1
+              : false,
+            truncates: style?.textOverflow === "ellipsis" && style?.overflow !== "visible",
+            empty: !labelBox || labelBox.width < 1,
+          };
+        });
+    });
+    assert.ok(nav.length >= 4, `the bottom nav has ${nav.length} destinations at ${width}px`);
+    const escaped = nav.filter((tab) => tab.escapes).map((tab) => tab.text);
+    assert.deepEqual(escaped, [],
+      `labels overflowing their tab at ${width}px: ${escaped.join(", ")}`);
+    const untruncatable = nav.filter((tab) => !tab.truncates).map((tab) => tab.text);
+    assert.deepEqual(untruncatable, [],
+      `labels that would be cut rather than ellipsised at ${width}px: ${untruncatable.join(", ")}`);
+    const blank = nav.filter((tab) => tab.empty).map((tab, index) => tab.text || `#${index}`);
+    assert.deepEqual(blank, [], `destinations with no label at ${width}px: ${blank.join(", ")}`);
+  }
+
+  // A tab whose visible label is shortened for the nav still has to say what
+  // it is to anything that reads the page rather than looks at it.
+  const named = await page.evaluate(() => {
+    const tab = document.querySelector('.tab[data-tab="digital-modes"]');
+    const short = tab.querySelector(".tab-label-short");
+    return {
+      label: tab.getAttribute("aria-label"),
+      shortHidden: short?.getAttribute("aria-hidden"),
+    };
+  });
+  assert.equal(named.label, "Digital modes", "the shortened tab lost its full name");
+  assert.equal(named.shortHidden, "true", "the short label is read out as well as shown");
+
+  // Hiding the map's filters leaves the bar, and the bar has to still be
+  // there to bring them back — it carries the only button that does.
+  await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1400, height: 900 });
+  await page.goto(`${fixture.origin}/map`, { waitUntil: "domcontentloaded" });
+  await page.locator("#aprs-map .leaflet-pane").first().waitFor({ state: "attached" });
+  await page.waitForTimeout(1200);
+  await page.locator("#map-overlay-toggle-btn").click();
+  await page.waitForTimeout(400);
+  const collapsed = await page.evaluate(() => {
+    const panel = document.querySelector(".map-overlay-panel");
+    const style = getComputedStyle(panel);
+    const rect = panel.getBoundingClientRect();
+    const button = document.getElementById("map-overlay-toggle-btn").getBoundingClientRect();
+    return {
+      width: Math.round(rect.width),
+      height: Math.round(rect.height),
+      opacity: Number(style.opacity),
+      visibility: style.visibility,
+      display: style.display,
+      buttonWidth: Math.round(button.width),
+    };
+  });
+  assert.ok(collapsed.width > 0 && collapsed.height > 0,
+    `the collapsed bar measures ${collapsed.width}x${collapsed.height}`);
+  assert.equal(collapsed.visibility, "visible", "the collapsed bar is not visible");
+  assert.notEqual(collapsed.display, "none", "the collapsed bar is display:none");
+  assert.equal(collapsed.opacity, 1, `the collapsed bar is at opacity ${collapsed.opacity}`);
+  assert.ok(collapsed.buttonWidth > 0, "Show Filters has no size to click");
+
+  assert.deepEqual(runtimeErrors, []);
+} finally {
+  await browser.close();
+  await fixture.close();
+}
diff --git a/src/trx-client/trx-frontend/trx-frontend-http/frontend/tests/sstv.test.mjs b/src/trx-client/trx-frontend/trx-frontend-http/frontend/tests/sstv.test.mjs
index 40c99dc4..bbcb8f35 100644
--- a/src/trx-client/trx-frontend/trx-frontend-http/frontend/tests/sstv.test.mjs
+++ b/src/trx-client/trx-frontend/trx-frontend-http/frontend/tests/sstv.test.mjs
@@ -125,8 +125,11 @@ test("a picture arriving paints its rows as they come", async () => {
 test("a received picture is kept, shown, and linked by file name alone", async () => {
   const { runtime, element } = await loadPanel();
 
+  // Recent, not a fixed date: the panel drops anything older than the history
+  // retention window, so a picture stamped with the day the test was written
+  // passes until that day is a day ago.
   runtime.dispatch("sstv", {
-    ts_ms: Date.UTC(2026, 7, 5, 12, 0, 0),
+    ts_ms: Date.now() - 60_000,
     vis: 44, mode: "Martin M1", width: 320, height: 256, lines: 256, complete: true,
     path: "/home/op/.cache/trx-rs/sstv/SSTV_20260805T120000Z_14230000_Martin-M1.png",
   });