EPIC: fix cypress specs #341
Description
Story
the existing failing cypress specs need to be fixed so that we can have a green cypress CI pipeline.
Acceptance Criteria
- fix "browse" e2e specs #360
- fix "home" e2e specs #361
- fix "requests" e2e specs #362
- fix "request" e2e specs #363
- cypress passes in ci #378
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