diff --git a/packages/insomnia/src/hidden-window-preload.ts b/packages/insomnia/src/hidden-window-preload.ts
index 8b5b819a56..ad88bdc711 100644
--- a/packages/insomnia/src/hidden-window-preload.ts
+++ b/packages/insomnia/src/hidden-window-preload.ts
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ export interface HiddenBrowserWindowToMainBridgeAPI {
   onmessage: (listener: (data: any, callback: (result: any) => void) => void) => void;
   curlRequest: (options: any) => Promise<any>;
   readCurlResponse: (options: { bodyPath: string; bodyCompression: Compression }) => Promise<{ body: string; error: string }>;
+  setBusy: (busy: boolean) => void;
 }
 const bridge: HiddenBrowserWindowToMainBridgeAPI = {
   onmessage: listener => {
@@ -37,6 +38,7 @@ const bridge: HiddenBrowserWindowToMainBridgeAPI = {
 
   curlRequest: options => ipcRenderer.invoke('curlRequest', options),
   readCurlResponse: options => ipcRenderer.invoke('readCurlResponse', options),
+  setBusy: busy => ipcRenderer.send('set-hidden-window-busy-status', busy),
 };
 
 if (process.contextIsolated) {
diff --git a/packages/insomnia/src/hidden-window.ts b/packages/insomnia/src/hidden-window.ts
index bf8f3b5fba..c2d47fbd8e 100644
--- a/packages/insomnia/src/hidden-window.ts
+++ b/packages/insomnia/src/hidden-window.ts
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ export interface HiddenBrowserWindowBridgeAPI {
 };
 
 window.bridge.onmessage(async (data, callback) => {
+  window.bridge.setBusy(true);
   console.log('[hidden-browser-window] recieved message', data);
   try {
     const timeout = data.context.timeout || 5000;
@@ -20,6 +21,8 @@ window.bridge.onmessage(async (data, callback) => {
   } catch (err) {
     console.error('error', err);
     callback({ error: err.message });
+  } finally {
+    window.bridge.setBusy(false);
   }
 });
 
diff --git a/packages/insomnia/src/main/window-utils.ts b/packages/insomnia/src/main/window-utils.ts
index ee989eddad..6ae8715bd9 100644
--- a/packages/insomnia/src/main/window-utils.ts
+++ b/packages/insomnia/src/main/window-utils.ts
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ const MINIMUM_HEIGHT = 400;
 
 const browserWindows = new Map<'Insomnia' | 'HiddenBrowserWindow', ElectronBrowserWindow>();
 let localStorage: LocalStorage | null = null;
+let hiddenWindowIsBusy = false;
 
 interface Bounds {
   height?: number;
@@ -55,9 +56,31 @@ export async function createHiddenBrowserWindow() {
   invariant(mainWindow, 'MainWindow is not defined, please restart the app.');
 
   console.log('[main] Registering the hidden window restarting handler');
+  ipcMain.on('set-hidden-window-busy-status', (_, busyStatus) => {
+    hiddenWindowIsBusy = busyStatus;
+  });
   // when the main window runs a script
   // if the hidden window is down, start it
   ipcMain.handle('open-channel-to-hidden-browser-window', async event => {
+    if (hiddenWindowIsBusy) {
+      const runningHiddenWindow = browserWindows.get('HiddenBrowserWindow');
+      if (runningHiddenWindow == null) {
+        hiddenWindowIsBusy = false;
+      } else {
+        await new Promise<void>(resolve => {
+          invariant(runningHiddenWindow, 'hiddenBrowserWindow is running');
+          // overwrite the closed handler
+          runningHiddenWindow.on('closed', () => {
+            if (runningHiddenWindow) {
+              console.log('[main] restarting hidden browser window:', runningHiddenWindow.id);
+              browserWindows.delete('HiddenBrowserWindow');
+            }
+            resolve();
+          });
+          stopHiddenBrowserWindow();
+        });
+      }
+    }
     if (browserWindows.get('HiddenBrowserWindow')) {
       return;
     }