C# Selenium "window.angular is undefined" when waiting for elements to be displayed

I have a C# automation framework with Selenium, Webdriver and XUnit. I have the following issue on my app, but I will give you an example using StackOverflow page, as I get the same issue.

I have a complex automation framework but I will try to explain it as much as I can.

I have a test where I'm navigating to a StackOverflow page, waiting for the element to be displayed and trying to click on the logo. But I get the following error message:

Message: 
OpenQA.Selenium.JavaScriptException : javascript error: window.angular is undefined. This could be either because this is a non-angular page or because your test involves client-side navigation, which can interfere with Protractor's bootstrapping. See http://git.io/v4gXM for details
JavaScript stack:
Error: window.angular is undefined. This could be either because this is a non-angular page or because your test involves client-side navigation, which can interfere with Protractor's bootstrapping. See http://git.io/v4gXM for details
at eval (eval at <anonymous> 457:26), <anonymous>:79:11)
at eval (eval at <anonymous> 457:26), <anonymous>:91:4)
at <anonymous>:457:47
at new Promise (<anonymous>)
at executeAsyncScript (<anonymous>:451:17)
at <anonymous>:481:29
at callFunction (<anonymous>:386:22)
at <anonymous>:400:23
at <anonymous>:401:3
(Session info: chrome=134.0.6998.36)

Stack Trace: 
WebDriver.UnpackAndThrowOnError(Response errorResponse, String commandToExecute)
WebDriver.ExecuteAsync(String driverCommandToExecute, Dictionary`2 parameters)
WebDriver.Execute(String driverCommandToExecute, Dictionary`2 parameters)
WebDriver.ExecuteScriptCommand(String script, String commandName, Object[] args)
WebDriver.ExecuteAsyncScript(String script, Object[] args)
NgWebDriver.ExecuteAsyncScript(String script, Object[] args)
NgWebDriver.WaitForAngular()
NgWebDriver.FindElement(By by)
ISearchContext.FindElement(By by)
DefaultElementLocator.LocateElement(IEnumerable`1 bys)
WebElementProxy.get_WrappedElement()
WebElementProxy.get_Displayed()
<>c__DisplayClass0_0.<ElementToBeDisplayed>b__0(IWebDriver driver) line 10
DefaultWait`1.Until[TResult](Func`2 condition, CancellationToken token)
DefaultWait`1.Until[TResult](Func`2 condition)
BaseComponent.WaitForElementToBeDisplayed() line 227
LogInLogOutValidation.Test() line 40
RuntimeMethodHandle.InvokeMethod(Object target, Void** arguments, Signature sig, Boolean isConstructor)
MethodBaseInvoker.InvokeWithNoArgs(Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr)


The test looks like this:

[Fact]
public void Test()
{
DriverFactory.CurrentDriver.SetUrl("https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72938900/getting-this-error-org-openqa-selenium-javascriptexception-javascript-error-a");

_stackOverflow.ButtonLogo.WaitForElementToBeDisplayed();
_stackOverflow.ButtonLogo.Click();

var title = _stackOverflow.LabelMainBar.GetText();

Assert.Equal("Newest Questions", title);
}


ButtonLogo selector:

[FindsBy(How = How.XPath, Using = "//*[@id='s-topbar--logo']")]
private IWebElement _buttonLogo;


Where the methods like WaitForElementToBeDisplayed() or Click() are using FluentWait approach:

public void WaitForElementToBeDisplayed()
{
GetFluentWait().Until(CustomExpectedConditions.ElementToBeDisplayed(_baseWebElement));
}

protected DefaultWait<IWebDriver> GetFluentWait()
{
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(DriverFactory.CurrentDriver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10))
{
PollingInterval = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1)
};

wait.IgnoreExceptionTypes(typeof(NoSuchElementException), typeof(ElementNotVisibleException), typeof(StaleElementReferenceException));

return wait;
}


What I've observed is that even if I'm doing a retry after every 1 second for max 10 seconds, the test is passing fast over this FluentWait and I can't understand why.

I have the same issue in Debug mode, even if I wait to see the element on the page.

I have also tried Thread.Sleep(7000) before interacting with the element but I have the same issue.

Does anyone know how to wait for the ButtonLogo so I can click on it?

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