Cypress freezes for a few minutes after selecting "E2E Testing"

[MichaelJHaywood]

If I run "cypress open" and select "E2E Testing" Cypress then displays the "Choose a browser" page and freezes for around 3 minutes. This means I can't interact with anything.

I'm unable to recreate this with a simple example so it''s leading me to think it could be one of the other Cypress dependencies.

    "cypress": "^13.3.1",
    "cypress-ag-grid": "^2.0.4",
    "cypress-if": "^1.12.0",
    "cypress-multi-reporters": "^1.6.3",
    "cypress-parallel": "^0.14.0",
    "cypress-recurse": "^1.35.2",
    "cypress-wait-until": "^3.0.1",

I enabled logging and noticed this is output multiple times while it is frozen. You can see it prints the amount of loaded modules, then takes 50 seconds and checks local test counts.

It doesn't appear any of our code is running during startup that could be blocking this either.

2024-04-24T12:33:46.720Z cypress:server:saved_state missing project path, looking for project here
2024-04-24T12:33:46.720Z cypress-verbose:graphql:operation OpenBrowser_ResetLatestVersionTelemetry completed in 0ms with 0 errors
2024-04-24T12:33:46.721Z cypress:server:saved_state state path for global mode
2024-04-24T12:33:46.721Z cypress:server:appdata path: C:\Users\name\AppData\Roaming\Cypress\cy\production\projects\__global__\state.json
2024-04-24T12:33:46.721Z cypress:server:saved_state full state path C:\Users\name\AppData\Roaming\Cypress\cy\production\projects\__global__\state.json
2024-04-24T12:33:46.721Z cypress-verbose:server:util:file get values from C:\Users\name\AppData\Roaming\Cypress\cy\production\projects\__global__\state.json
2024-04-24T12:33:46.721Z cypress:data-context:sources:VersionsDataSource Not initial launch of Cypress, skipping dependency check
2024-04-24T12:33:46.722Z cypress:network:agent addRequest called { isHttps: true, href: 'https://download.cypress.io/desktop.json' }
2024-04-24T12:33:46.722Z cypress:network:agent got family { family: 4, href: 'https://download.cypress.io/desktop.json' }
2024-04-24T12:33:46.725Z cypress-verbose:packherd:trace Loaded "C:\Users\name\AppData\Local\Cypress\Cache\13.8.1\Cypress\resources\app\packages\data-context\node_modules\chokidar\lib\constants.js" (cache | exports) -> moduleCache: 812, exportsCache: 3755, loaded: 810
2024-04-24T12:34:35.114Z cypress:data-context:sources:EventCollectorSource Checking to send local test counts
2024-04-24T12:34:35.114Z cypress:data-context:sources:EventCollectorSource will not send - not authenticated
2024-04-24T12:34:35.121Z cypress:data-context:sources:GitDataSource Refreshing git data
2024-04-24T12:34:35.139Z cypress-verbose:packherd:trace Loaded "C:\Users\name\AppData\Local\Cypress\Cache\13.8.1\Cypress\resources\app\packages\socket\node_modules\socket.io\node_modules\ws\lib\constants.js" (cache | exports) -> moduleCache: 812, exportsCache: 3755, loaded: 810

Has anybody else been experiencing this?