diff --git a/browser-service/src/core/browser.py b/browser-service/src/core/browser.py
index d2e8539..8a5eccf 100644
--- a/browser-service/src/core/browser.py
+++ b/browser-service/src/core/browser.py
@@ -61,11 +61,22 @@
             if session_id in self.pages: del self.pages[session_id]
             if session_id in self.contexts: del self.contexts[session_id]
             
-            context = await self._browser.new_context(
-                viewport={'width': 1280, 'height': 800},
-                user_agent='Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/122.0.0.0 Safari/537.36'
-            )
-            page = await context.new_page()
+            import asyncio
+            for attempt in range(2):
+                try:
+                    context = await asyncio.wait_for(
+                        self._browser.new_context(
+                            viewport={'width': 1280, 'height': 800},
+                            user_agent='Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/122.0.0.0 Safari/537.36'
+                        ), timeout=20.0
+                    )
+                    page = await asyncio.wait_for(context.new_page(), timeout=20.0)
+                    break
+                except Exception as e:
+                    logger.warning(f"Browser stall during context creation: {e}. Reigniting underlying chromium daemon (Attempt {attempt+1}/2)...")
+                    await self.init()
+            else:
+                raise Exception("CRITICAL: Repeated chromium daemon lockups halted context injection securely.")
             
             # Apply stealth (synchronous) - Disabled temporarily due to module call error
             # playwright_stealth.stealth(page)