diff --git a/core/http/react-ui/e2e/chrome-audit.spec.js b/core/http/react-ui/e2e/chrome-audit.spec.js
index bc1827464..728701003 100644
--- a/core/http/react-ui/e2e/chrome-audit.spec.js
+++ b/core/http/react-ui/e2e/chrome-audit.spec.js
@@ -14,6 +14,16 @@ const ROUTES = [
 ]
 
 test('no page renders a dead icon or a default-chrome control', async ({ page }) => {
+  // One test walks every route, so its budget has to scale with the list rather
+  // than sit on Playwright's per-test default of 30s. At 25 routes that default
+  // allows ~1.2s per navigation, which holds on a developer machine and does
+  // not on a loaded CI runner: the suite went red on the commit that added this
+  // spec, timing out mid-loop at waitForTimeout rather than at any single goto,
+  // which is what cumulative slowness looks like as opposed to one hung route.
+  // Six seconds a route absorbs a slow runner and still fails promptly if a
+  // route really does hang.
+  test.setTimeout(ROUTES.length * 6_000)
+
   const findings = []
   for (const route of ROUTES) {
     await page.goto(route)