Auto-connecting the hardware-observe interface for the firefox snap

(this is a follow-up to Auto-connecting the hardware-observe interface to allow firefox to detect GPU via libpci?)

Firefox uses libpci to detect the GPU to decide whether to enable the hardware-accelerated codepath for the rendering of web content.

When strictly confined as a snap, this requires additional permissions to query the hardware, hence the need for the hardware-observe plug. This was added upstream recently.

This is a request for the corresponding store declaration to auto-connect the interface.

Thanks for considering it!

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+1 from me - this is expected and usual functionality for firefox.

+1 from me for auto-connect hardware-observe since its clearly required for the described functionality. +2 votes for, 0 votes against, granting auto-connect of hardware-observe to firefox. This is now live.

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