fix: use Chromium's native DevTools context menu and dialog paths#51863
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Previously DevTools context menus were implemented by overriding InspectorFrontendHost.showContextMenuAtPoint in JS and popping an Electron Menu on the inspected page's BrowserWindow. Since a detached DevTools window is not an Electron window, the menu was always anchored to (and focused) the inspected page's window. Remove the JS overrides and let Blink's native DevToolsHost.showContextMenuAtPoint path run instead: menu items arrive via WebContentsDelegate::HandleContextMenu and are shown as a native menu anchored to whichever widget hosts the DevTools view, with selections routed back through ExecuteCustomContextMenuCommand / NotifyContextMenuClosed. window.confirm in DevTools now works through a JavaScriptDialogManager on InspectableWebContents. Co-authored-by: Samuel Attard <sattard@anthropic.com>
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Backport of #51805
See that PR for details.
Notes: Fixed the context menu in a detached DevTools window focusing the inspected page's window instead of the DevTools window.