devops: don't force NPM 8 everywhere (#27465)

We used to have this historically due to bots which were running on
Node.js 14. Node.js 14 was shipping NPM 7 back in the days.

Now all bots are on >= Node.js 16 so we can remove this legacy code.

.github/workflows/infra.yml

@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ jobs:
     - uses: actions/setup-node@v3
       with:
         node-version: 16
-    - run: npm i -g npm@8
     - run: npm ci
     - run: npm run build
     - run: npx playwright install-deps

.github/workflows/publish_canary.yml

@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ jobs:
       with:
         node-version: 18
         registry-url: 'https://registry.npmjs.org'
-    - run: npm i -g npm@8
     - run: npm ci
     - run: npm run build
     - run: npx playwright install-deps
@@ -79,7 +78,6 @@ jobs:
     - uses: actions/setup-node@v3
       with:
         node-version: 16
-    - run: npm i -g npm@8
     - name: Deploy Canary
       run: bash utils/build/deploy-trace-viewer.sh --canary
       if: contains(github.ref, 'main')

.github/workflows/publish_release_docker.yml

@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ jobs:
       uses: docker/setup-qemu-action@v2
       with:
         platforms: arm64
-    - run: npm i -g npm@8
     - run: npm ci
     - run: npm run build
     - run: npx playwright install-deps

.github/workflows/publish_release_driver.yml

@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ jobs:
       with:
         node-version: 16
         registry-url: 'https://registry.npmjs.org'
-    - run: npm i -g npm@8
     - run: npm ci
     - run: npm run build
     - run: npx playwright install-deps

.github/workflows/publish_release_npm.yml

@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ jobs:
       with:
         node-version: 18
         registry-url: 'https://registry.npmjs.org'
-    - run: npm i -g npm@8
     - run: npm ci
     - run: npm run build
     - run: npx playwright install-deps

.github/workflows/publish_release_traceviewer.yml

@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ jobs:
     - uses: actions/setup-node@v3
       with:
         node-version: 16
-    - run: npm i -g npm@8
     - name: Deploy Stable
       run: bash utils/build/deploy-trace-viewer.sh --stable
       env:

.github/workflows/roll_browser_into_playwright.yml

@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ jobs:
     - uses: actions/setup-node@v3
       with:
         node-version: 16
-    - run: npm i -g npm@8
     - run: npm ci
     - run: npm run build
     - name: Install dependencies

.github/workflows/tests_components.yml

@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ jobs:
     - uses: actions/setup-node@v3
       with:
         node-version: 16
-    - run: npm i -g npm@8
     - run: npm ci
     - run: npm run build
     - run: npx playwright install --with-deps

.github/workflows/tests_electron.yml

@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ jobs:
     - uses: actions/setup-node@v3
       with:
         node-version: 16
-    - run: npm i -g npm@8
     - run: npm ci
       env:
         PLAYWRIGHT_SKIP_BROWSER_DOWNLOAD: 1

.github/workflows/tests_stress.yml

@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ jobs:
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v3
     - uses: actions/setup-node@v3
-    - run: npm i -g npm@8
+      with:
+        node-version: 16
     - run: npm ci
     - run: npm run build
     - run: npx playwright install --with-deps

.github/workflows/tests_video.yml

@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ jobs:
     - uses: actions/setup-node@v3
       with:
         node-version: 16
-    - run: npm i -g npm@8
     - run: npm ci
       env:
         DEBUG: pw:install

.github/workflows/tests_webview2.yml

@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ jobs:
     - uses: actions/setup-dotnet@v2
       with:
         dotnet-version: '6.0.x'
-    - run: npm i -g npm@8
     - run: npm ci
       env:
         PLAYWRIGHT_SKIP_BROWSER_DOWNLOAD: 1