Avoid crashes when calling computedName or computedRole from DevTools

The crash involves re-entrance to the rendering lifecycle.

The lifecycle is supposed to be at pre-paint clean when these methods are called from devtools. However, the methods can also be called from
the (not-shipped) AOM JS APIs. The code that checked for the lifecycle
state in those methods was a hack to avoid re-entrant lifecycles. CL
4976744 revealed a situation when the lifecycle was not up-to-date
(still don't know how); in those situations, return an empty string
to avoid crashing.

This CL also migrates DevTools to use a method that is guaranteed not
to re-enter the lifecycle, which is a best practice for such situations.

Fixed: 1496369

Change-Id: Ibeffd0169291897e208da6860320951078663153
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/4979375
Auto-Submit: Chris Harrelson <chrishtr@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Mason Freed <masonf@chromium.org>
Commit-Queue: Chris Harrelson <chrishtr@chromium.org>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/main@{#1215890}
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