cypress info does not detect firefox (snap installation) if started via linux cronjob

[FrankL-git]

Current behavior

Running cypress info in a bash detects firefox:

$ cd /home/fl/project_dir
$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/ssl/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin
$ npx cypress info
...
Detected 2 browsers installed:

1. Chrome
  - Name: chrome
  - Channel: stable
  - Version: 120.0.6099.129
  - Executable: google-chrome
  - Profile: /home/fl/.config/Cypress/cy/production/browsers/chrome-stable

2. Firefox
  - Name: firefox
  - Channel: stable
  - Version: 120.0
  - Executable: firefox
  - Profile: /home/fl/snap/firefox/current/Cypress/firefox-stable

  ...
  Proxy Settings: none detected
  Environment Variables: none detected
  
  Application Data: /home/fl/.config/cypress/cy/development
  Browser Profiles: /home/fl/.config/cypress/cy/development/browsers
  Binary Caches: /home/fl/.cache/Cypress
  
  Cypress Version: 13.6.2 (stable)
  System Platform: linux (Ubuntu - 22.04)
  System Memory: 8.2 GB free 3.49 GB

This crontab

SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/ssl/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin
* * * * * cd /home/fl/project_dir && npx cypress info &> /tmp/cronjob.log

does not detect firefox as the content of /tmp/cronjob.log shows:

...
Detected 1 browser installed:

1. Chrome
  - Name: chrome
  - Channel: stable
  - Version: 120.0.6099.129
  - Executable: google-chrome
  - Profile: /home/fl/.config/Cypress/cy/production/browsers/chrome-stable
...
Proxy Settings: none detected
Environment Variables: none detected

Application Data: /home/fl/.config/cypress/cy/development
Browser Profiles: /home/fl/.config/cypress/cy/development/browsers
Binary Caches: /home/fl/.cache/Cypress

Cypress Version: 13.6.2 (stable)
System Platform: linux (Ubuntu - 22.04)
System Memory: 8.2 GB free 3.48 GB

Desired behavior

firefox should be detected.

Test code to reproduce

See above

Cypress Version

13.6.2 (stable)

Node version

v20.10.0

Operating System

linux (Ubuntu - 22.04)

Debug Logs

No response

Other

As as workaround I use the -b option of cypress run:

npx cypress run -b /snap/firefox/current/usr/lib/firefox/firefox

Many thanks in advance.

[thearchitector]

confirming this is a problem i see as well