Description of Change

For Chrome extension popups and options windows, the size of their frame corresponds to the minimum size of their document's layout. To enable this, RenderViewHost::EnablePreferredSizeMode exists to notify the RenderView to send back updates with its size. This gives an interesting result where the document can dictate its frame's size.

In practice, it looks like this:

Example code:

const view = new BrowserView({
  webPreferences: {
    preferredSizeMode: true,
  },
})
view.webContents.on('preferred-size-changed', (event, size) => {
  view.setBounds({ x: 0, y: 0, width: size.width, height: size.height })
})

I could see this being useful for specialized modal popups as well.

cc @electron/wg-api -- Question for you: is it worth adding tests for just adding bindings to existing Chromium functionality?

relates to #19447

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Release Notes

Notes: Added webPreferences.preferredSizeMode to allow sizing views according to their document's minimum size.