Can not click any button on menu bar of Cypress or the built-in Electron browser

[EricKY26]

Current behavior

Can not click any button on menu bar of Cypress or the built-in Electron browser, Even when I use ALT button on keyboard to select these ones, I cannot open any of these menus.

Desired behavior

Can click buttons on menu bar of Cypress and the built-in Electron browser

Test code to reproduce

Doesn't involve

Versions

Cypress 7.2.0

[lukeapage]

just got the same issue, had to work-around getting devtools open using inspect element.

[jennifer-shehane]

Yah I saw someone else mention this but they didn't provide context. Are you both using Windows operating system?

[lukeapage]

I’m windows 10 yes

[EricKY26]

Yah I saw someone else mention this but they didn't provide context. Are you both using Windows operating system?

@jennifer-shehane Yes, I'm using Windows 10

[jennifer-shehane]

I can recreate this in Windows 10. The menu bar is not selectable in 7.2.0.

[jennifer-shehane]

This issue does not exist in Cypress 7.1.0, so was introduced in 7.2.0. Pretty strange. All I can think that may be relevant is the Electron downgrade in 7.2.0? But I don't see this bug mentioned in Electron anywhere.

[csdivine]

I just noticed this as well. I'm running Cypress 7.2.0 on CentOS 7.

[EricKY26]

This issue does not exist in Cypress 7.1.0, so was introduced in 7.2.0. Pretty strange. All I can think that may be relevant is the Electron downgrade in 7.2.0?

That's exactly what I thought.

[CypressCecelia]

Received additional reports of this, using latest version of Cypress.

[jennifer-shehane]

This bug was introduced in #16113

[cypress-bot]

The code for this is done in cypress-io/cypress#17037, but has yet to be released.
We'll update this issue and reference the changelog when it's released.

[jennifer-shehane]

Reopening as we are reverting the previous PR to avoid possible performance implications for many users on low resources machines recording video. We'll continue investigating and hopefully move towards updating Electron to fix this issue.

[strowk]

I have it on Ubuntu 20.04 (just fyi)

[srp-at-ah]

Same problem: Cypress 7.7.0 and Manjaro (XFCE) and npx cypress open

I also fetched the ZIP from https://download.cypress.io/desktop
Then extract it and cd and .\Cypress: the problem remains

I had upgraded an existing project from 4.10.0, and just reverted back to that version. In that case I can operate the menu bar. So it not an issue that my OS is not supported but as someone mentioned it a problem which appeared around version 7.2.0 I believe.

I afterwards updated to Cypress 8.0.0 and the problem remains.

Is there any workaround I could use? Thanks in advance.

[cypress-bot]

The code for this is done in cypress-io/cypress#17408, but has yet to be released.
We'll update this issue and reference the changelog when it's released.

[cypress-bot]

Released in 8.3.0.

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