ci: use Firefox for Windows E2E tests #3538
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Description
Continuing on the effort to speed up CI, I noticed that on Windows, the E2E tests took 3 minutes to install some dependendcies before even starting to download Chrome.
After checking the Playwright core codebase, it turns out that this is due to the installation of the Server Media Foundation windows feature on Windows Server.
Altho, something I noticed is that this is only required for Chromium-based browsers.
Therefore, this PR changes the Windows E2E tests on CI to use Firefox instead of Chrome, which skips this step and immediately starts downloading Firefox before running the tests.
This also has the added benefit of running our E2E tests on a different browser.