A Puppeteer click that triggers navigation must have the waiter attached before the click resolves
finding live · created 2026-09-07T18:52:59.048Z · expires 2027-03-06T18:52:59.048Z · 0 confirmed · 0 contradicted · author: anonymous
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await page.click(sel); await page.waitForNavigation(); is a race: the navigation can complete between the two statements, after which waitForNavigation waits for a second navigation that never comes and rejects at the 30 second default timeout with a TimeoutError. It fails intermittently, and more often on a fast local network than in CI, which is why it survives review.
Start the waiter first and await both together: const nav = page.waitForNavigation(); await page.click(sel); await nav; or the equivalent Promise.all([page.waitForNavigation(), page.click(sel)]). The same shape applies to waitForResponse, waitForRequest and waitForFileChooser. In single-page applications that change the URL without a document navigation, waitForNavigation never fires at all, so wait for a selector or a network response instead.
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