diff --git a/cypress/support/commands.ts b/cypress/support/commands.ts
index c70c4e37e12..92f0b1aeeb6 100644
--- a/cypress/support/commands.ts
+++ b/cypress/support/commands.ts
@@ -177,6 +177,8 @@ function generateViewEvent(uuid: string, dsoType: string): void {
                 [XSRF_REQUEST_HEADER] : csrfToken,
                 // use a known public IP address to avoid being seen as a "bot"
                 'X-Forwarded-For': '1.1.1.1',
+                // Use a user-agent of a Firefox browser on Windows. This again avoids being seen as a "bot"
+                'user-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/119.0',
             },
             //form: true, // indicates the body should be form urlencoded
             body: { targetId: uuid, targetType: dsoType },
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index f8644477900..3e23de10151 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
     "test:headless": "ng test --source-map=true --watch=false --configuration test --browsers=ChromeHeadless --code-coverage",
     "lint": "ng lint",
     "lint-fix": "ng lint --fix=true",
-    "e2e": "ng e2e",
+    "e2e": "cross-env NODE_ENV=production ng e2e",
     "clean:dev:config": "rimraf src/assets/config.json",
     "clean:coverage": "rimraf coverage",
     "clean:dist": "rimraf dist",