diff --git a/test/e2e/.mocharc.js b/test/e2e/.mocharc.js
index 56884d19d4..080014fbb4 100644
--- a/test/e2e/.mocharc.js
+++ b/test/e2e/.mocharc.js
@@ -17,5 +17,9 @@ module.exports = createMochaConfig({
   extraMochaConfig : {
     // E2E tests are much slower by default than Mocha's 75ms default threshold.
     slow : 1000,
+    // Maintaining pre-allocated frontend tabs in the background while also running
+    // tests can cause very long running tests in some edge cases. We are more linient
+    // in e2e tests.
+    timeout : 10000,
   }
 })