Video is turned off after first spec using firefox < 93

[rd-henning-ellerweg]

Current behavior

I am running multiple test specs, using firefox 86. After the first test the video recording is turned off / does not happen. Using electron every spec is video recorded. Might be related to issue 18415

I am using https://download-installer.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/86.0.1/linux-x86_64/de/firefox-86.0.1.tar.bz2

Starting cypress with path to firefox cypress run --browser ~/firefox/firefox

Output excerpt

  │ Cypress:        10.9.0  
  │ Browser:        Custom Firefox 86 (headless)
  │ Node Version:   v16.17.0 (/home/henning/.nvm/versions/node/v16.17.0/bin/node)
  │ Specs:          2 found (spec.cy.js, spec_2.cy.js)
  │ Searched:       cypress/e2e/**/*.cy.{js,jsx,ts,tsx}

  (Results)
  │ Tests:        1
  │ Passing:      1
  │ Screenshots:  0
  │ Video:        true
  │ Duration:     2 seconds
  │ Spec Ran:     spec.cy.js
  (Video)
  Started processing:  Compressing to 32 CRF
  Finished processing: /home/henning/Develop/workspaces/digital/cypress-video-test    (0 seconds)
                        /cypress/videos/spec.cy.js.mp4                                            

  (Results)
  │ Tests:        2    
  │ Passing:      2  
  │ Screenshots:  0  
  │ Video:        false 
  │ Duration:     2 seconds   
  │ Spec Ran:     spec_2.cy.js
  (Run Finished)    

cypress_debug.txt

Desired behavior

Video is produced / not turned off after first spec

Test code to reproduce

https://github.com/rd-henning-ellerweg/cypress-video-test

Cypress Version

10.9.0

Node version

v16.17.0

Operating System

wsl2 - Ubuntu 20.04.5 on Win 10.0.19044 Build 19044

Debug Logs

see attachment

Other

No response

[AtofStryker]

Hi @rd-henning-ellerweg . Thank you for opening an issue. Have you tried getting this to work outside the WSL environment? We currently do not support WSL due to some oddities within the environment.

[rd-henning-ellerweg]

Hi @AtofStryker Well my 'real' project shows the same symptoms when run in github actions. There we use a container based on https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress-docker-images/blob/master/browsers/node16.17.1-chrome106-ff105-edge/Dockerfile but uses the old firefox version. Getting the videos produced in my CI pipeline is as you might guess the real issue I am facing.

Anyway, I did the same thing on my windows machine, which yields the same result. I even updated to cypress 10.10.0 which fixed a firefox windows connection problem. Used https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/86.0.1/win64/de/ using policies to turn off auto update https://www.journeybytes.com/disable-firefox-quantum-updates/#policies.json

[AtofStryker]

@rd-henning-ellerweg makes sense. I had issues getting this set up on MacOS (reverting to older versions of firefox is a bit of a pain on MacOS), but I did get this set up on my ubuntu machine and was able to reproduce it with the firefox 86 distribution you linked. Definitely a bit of a strange issue. Will work on getting this routed to a team.

[AtofStryker]