thank you thank you the former (specific chrome version) is preferable although it costs CI minutes, because the latter requires a yml update when Cypress or browser version changes

Yeah, that is not ideal at all. I'll be sure to share that info with the developer working on it. I am not sure if he is on Discord, but I will share this link with him in case he is.

You might want to mark this as duplicate It's ok if it's out there because the workaround might not be documented elsewhere. https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/25040