Add Arm browsers to `linux/arm64` Docker images

[flotwig]

Currently, the browsers and included image series do not ship with any browsers except --browser electron. The blocker is the lack of official support from browser vendors.

Users must manually find and install other Arm builds in order to use non-Electron browsers with the linux/arm64 images.

As browser vendors make official Arm builds available, Cypress should update existing linux/arm64 images to include them.

Upstream tracking issues:

• Google Chrome Linux arm64 support: https://crbug.com/677140
• Mozilla Firefox Linux arm64 support: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1678342
• Microsoft Edge Linux arm64 support: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/edge-for-linux-arm64/m-p/1532272

[Elwazer007]

does cypress/base:14.7.0 support arm/64 arch ? if not is any of the base images does ? I always see the warning that IMAGE MAY HAVE POOR PERFORMANCE, OR FAIL, IF RUN VIA EMULATION when trying to run a container which has base image from cypress

[flotwig]

@Elwazer007 none of the cypress images do yet. but look out for #700 to merge soon and close #431

[FarhanShoukat]

Why not include chromium? Chromium has a package for ARM on linux.

[flotwig]

@FarhanShoukat I recommend building a Docker image off of our images that includes Chromium. We chose not to ship an Arm image with Chromium for a few reasons:

a. It would require users to use a different invocation on Arm vs. on non-Arm (--browser chromium vs --browser chrome).
b. This issue is a temporary condition, that will be resolved once upstream browser vendors build for Arm, at which point we will re-issue the browsers images on Arm.
c. It's not difficult for users to build their own images that include Chromium if they really need to test on a non-Electron browser on M1/other Arm environments.

[FarhanShoukat]

@flotwig thank you for your response. I have already built my based on node. It made sense because I don't really extra stuff like electron.
It was just a suggestion that maybe have an image with Chromium as well. We already have images with Chrome, Firefox and Edge. Chromium would a good addition in my opinion.

[kedare]

But why not use Chromium instead of Google Chrome everywhere ?

[mjhenkes]

With our new cypress/factory pattern we could add a chromium install script but not install it by default in the browsers image to avoid making the cypress/browsers or cypress/included images larger.

I'd definitely be open to a contribution on this.

[deser]

Seems running with --platform linux/amd64 helps. Read more there: https://docs.docker.com/build/building/multi-platform/