Update cypress to configure default browser#1283
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I'd like to set the default browser which was introduced in a 13.x version. Update it to the latest version that we can use. We can't use version 15 as it requires node 20+
Cypress chose to use the 'electron' browser by default on my machine. Some of the specs (the ones that stop code execution) don't work within electron. I think it's better to use a browser that our users are more likely to be using by default. You can still choose another browser with the -b/--browser flag when running specs.
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Related to https://github.com/RaspberryPiFoundation/digital-editor-issues/issues/878
It's currently not easy to run the cypress specs locally because they default to running in Electron (where they don't run correctly).
Update Cypress so we can configure a default browser.
Note that there's still a couple more things we will need to do to make it possible to run the cypress specs in the docker container to install Cypress and Chrome which is something I'm looking at.