Never create flow threads (multicol).

Behind a feature flag / kill switch called FlowThreadLess, which is
enabled for "stable". It depends on the LayoutBoxVisualLocation, because
that is what removed the last real dependency on flow threads.

This disables the legacy classes LayoutFlowThread,
LayoutMultiColumnFlowThread, LayoutMultiColumnSet,
LayoutMultiColumnSpannerPlaceholder, and MultiColumnFragmentainerGroup.

Some changes were required to keep updating the IsInsideMulticol flag
(up until recently known as IsInsideFlowThread). Even more changes were
required to keep column spanners working. The flow thread was
responsible for determining whether a spanner was indeed a valid spanner
or not (and then create a LayoutMultiColumnSpannerPlaceholder object for
it). Now determine this on the fly. We could introduce a bit for it, but
that means more maintenance, and not doing it should be safe and cheap
enough.

Bug: 371802475
Change-Id: Ia712e6b09173d56aa43d8c146707a88a0e46a85b
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/6523802
Reviewed-by: Ian Kilpatrick <ikilpatrick@chromium.org>
Commit-Queue: Morten Stenshorne <mstensho@chromium.org>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/main@{#1459057}
26 files changed
tree: a1f56bc35b4c1c8307c6a1492db374f08385a18c
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  9. chrome/
  10. chromecast/
  11. chromeos/
  12. codelabs/
  13. components/
  14. content/
  15. crypto/
  16. dbus/
  17. device/
  18. docs/
  19. extensions/
  20. fuchsia_web/
  21. gin/
  22. google_apis/
  23. gpu/
  24. headless/
  25. infra/
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  29. mojo/
  30. native_client_sdk/
  31. net/
  32. pdf/
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  34. printing/
  35. remoting/
  36. rlz/
  37. sandbox/
  38. services/
  39. skia/
  40. sql/
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  44. third_party/
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  46. ui/
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