fix (cherry-pick): gas limit estimation (#28327)

[matthewwalsh0]

Description

Cherry-pick of #28327 for release 12.7.0.

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Builds ready [7565b64]

• builds: chrome, firefox
• builds (beta): chrome
• builds (flask): chrome, firefox
• builds (MMI): chrome, firefox
• builds (test): chrome, firefox
• builds (test-flask): chrome, firefox
• build viz: Build System
• mv3: Background Module Init Stats
• mv3: UI Init Stats
• mv3: Module Load Stats
• mv3: Bundle Size Stats
• mv2: E2e Actions Stats
• code coverage: Report
• storybook: Storybook
• typescript migration: Dashboard
• all artifacts
• bundle viz:

  • background: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
  • common: 0, 1, 10, 11, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
  • content-script: 0
  • offscreen: 0
  • ui: 0, 1, 10, 11, 12, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Page Load Metrics (1901 ± 118 ms)

Platform	Page	Metric	Min (ms)	Max (ms)	Average (ms)	StandardDeviation (ms)	MarginOfError (ms)
Chrome	Home	firstPaint	1564	2583	1906	253	121
		domContentLoaded	1555	2486	1874	238	114
		load	1565	2551	1901	246	118
		domInteractive	16	109	51	24	11
		backgroundConnect	8	77	32	23	11
		firstReactRender	48	134	93	21	10
		getState	4	63	19	20	9
		initialActions	0	1	0	0	0
		loadScripts	1119	2022	1396	214	103
		setupStore	11	80	21	18	9
		uiStartup	1769	2756	2101	267	128

Bundle size diffs [🚨 Warning! Bundle size has increased!]

• background: 657 Bytes (0.01%)
• ui: 2 KiB (0.03%)
• common: 537 Bytes (0.01%)