fix: keep the unsupported-flag warning off browsers

--enable-blink-features is on the list of flags Chromium warns about, so every
browser the flag was applied to put a yellow "unsupported command-line flag"
bar above each page.

Browsers are given --enable-features=MiddleClickAutoscroll instead. It asks for
the same thing - Blink generates a feature of the same name for each of its
runtime flags - and is not on that list. That spelling only works from Chromium
124 onwards, so everything else keeps the flag that works everywhere: an
application embedding an older Chromium, Steam's CEF among them, has no such
bar to show anyway.

Helium knows the feature under a name of its own and ignores the Chromium one,
so browsers are asked for HeliumMiddleClickAutoscroll as well; autoscroll never
worked there before. A name a browser does not know is ignored, which is what
makes one list safe for all of them.

An installation set up by an earlier version is taken back and written again
once, because a file that is already marked as patched would otherwise be left
alone with the old flag in it.
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@@ -18,7 +18,18 @@ on the command line.
*middleclick-autoscroll* finds every Chromium-based application on the system
and puts that argument somewhere the application will actually read it, then
keeps doing so for anything installed later. It works on any distribution:
keeps doing so for anything installed later.
A browser is given *--enable-features=MiddleClickAutoscroll* instead. It asks
for the same feature - Blink generates a feature of that name for each of its
runtime flags - but it is not on the list of flags Chromium warns about, so the
browser does not put a bar reading "You are using an unsupported command-line
flag" above every page. That spelling only works from Chromium 124 onwards,
which is why everything else keeps the first one: an application that embeds an
older Chromium, such as Steam's CEF, has no such bar to show anyway. Helium
knows the feature under a name of its own and is asked for
*HeliumMiddleClickAutoscroll* as well; a name a browser does not know is
ignored. It works on any distribution:
which of the routes below an application takes is read off its launcher, not
assumed from where the launcher came from.
@@ -71,10 +82,10 @@ Two ways, chosen per application.
Where the launcher reads extra arguments from
_$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/<name>-flags.conf_. This is the preferred route: it is
the supported way to pass arguments, it survives package upgrades, and it
applies to a launch from a terminal as much as one from the menu. An
*--enable-blink-features* line that is already in the file is extended
rather than duplicated - Chromium keeps only the last occurrence of that
option, so a second one would switch the first one off.
applies to a launch from a terminal as much as one from the menu. A
feature list that is already in the file is extended rather than
duplicated - Chromium keeps only the last occurrence of such an option, so
a second one would switch the first one off.
Arch's Electron and Chromium packages all wrap their binaries this way, and
so do a number of individual vendors' launchers elsewhere. Whether a given