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• #52417 included the Chromium CL 'hid: Recursively filter nested collections':
  https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/7987617. This change caused the navigator.hid test to be flaky on macOS, eg

2026-07-24T18:24:14.1824340Z not ok 1928 navigator.hid returns a device when select-hid-device event is defined
2026-07-24T18:24:14.1825010Z   expected '' to include '[object HIDDevice]'
2026-07-24T18:24:14.1825660Z   AssertionError: expected '' to include '[object HIDDevice]'
2026-07-24T18:24:14.1826310Z       at Context.<anonymous> (electron/spec/chromium-spec.ts:4688:25)

The WebHID blocklist is populated lazily on first access and, with Chromium's recursive nested-collection filtering, a composite device could be enumerated into the select-hid-device list before the blocklist was fully applied, then excluded during the post-selection permission recheck, making requestDevice() resolve empty and the test flaky. This PR fixes that issue by enumerating devices first to stabilize the device list.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 4.8

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