[Snyk] Security upgrade web-ext from 4.3.0 to 8.0.0

[saurabharch]

Snyk has created this PR to fix 1 vulnerabilities in the npm dependencies of this project.

Snyk changed the following file(s):

• packages/react-devtools-extensions/package.json

Vulnerabilities that will be fixed with an upgrade:

	Issue	Score
	Predictable Value Range from Previous Values SNYK-JS-FORMDATA-10841150	863

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Summary of Changes

Hello @saurabharch, I'm Gemini Code Assist¹! I'm currently reviewing this pull request and will post my feedback shortly. In the meantime, here's a summary to help you and other reviewers quickly get up to speed!

This pull request is an automated security fix initiated by Snyk. Its main objective is to enhance the project's security posture by updating a key dependency to a newer major version, thereby mitigating a critical vulnerability.

Highlights

• Security Upgrade: This pull request performs an automated security upgrade of the web-ext dependency from version ^4 to ^8.0.0.
• Vulnerability Remediation: The upgrade specifically addresses and fixes a critical vulnerability identified by Snyk as 'Predictable Value Range from Previous Values' (SNYK-JS-FORMDATA-10841150), which has a severity score of 863.

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Code Review

This pull request from Snyk addresses a security vulnerability by upgrading the web-ext dependency from version 4 to 8. While this is an important security fix, the major version bump introduces a high risk of breaking changes. I've added a comment to highlight that scripts using web-ext will likely need to be updated and that the Firefox extension build and tests must pass before this change can be merged.

[gemini-code-assist]

This PR upgrades web-ext across four major versions (from v4 to v8). This is a significant jump that likely introduces breaking changes, as also indicated by the Snyk PR metadata (isBreakingChange:true).

web-ext appears to be used for building and testing the Firefox extension (e.g., via the test:firefox script). The command-line interface or configuration for web-ext may have changed between v4 and v8.

Any scripts using web-ext will need to be updated for compatibility with v8. The Firefox extension build and associated tests must pass with this new version before this PR is merged. Without these changes, the build and testing pipeline for the Firefox extension is likely to fail.