diff --git a/apps/ai-game-creator-shell/src-tauri/src/browser/process.rs b/apps/ai-game-creator-shell/src-tauri/src/browser/process.rs
index bcce384f0..ac46bbbda 100644
--- a/apps/ai-game-creator-shell/src-tauri/src/browser/process.rs
+++ b/apps/ai-game-creator-shell/src-tauri/src/browser/process.rs
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ fn parse_devtools_ws_url(line: &str) -> Option<String> {
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
 enum OwnedBrowserLaunchError {
     SpawnFailed(String),
-    WsTimeout,
+    WsTimeout(String),
     WsFailed(String),
     ConnectTimeout,
     ConnectFailed(String),
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ impl OwnedBrowserLaunchError {
     fn stage(&self) -> BrowserLaunchStage {
         match self {
             Self::SpawnFailed(_) => BrowserLaunchStage::Spawn,
-            Self::WsTimeout | Self::WsFailed(_) => BrowserLaunchStage::WsHandshake,
+            Self::WsTimeout(_) | Self::WsFailed(_) => BrowserLaunchStage::WsHandshake,
             Self::ConnectTimeout | Self::ConnectFailed(_) => BrowserLaunchStage::CdpConnect,
         }
     }
@@ -132,14 +132,14 @@ impl OwnedBrowserLaunchError {
     fn is_recoverable(&self) -> bool {
         matches!(
             self,
-            Self::WsTimeout | Self::WsFailed(_) | Self::ConnectTimeout | Self::ConnectFailed(_)
+            Self::WsTimeout(_) | Self::WsFailed(_) | Self::ConnectTimeout | Self::ConnectFailed(_)
         )
     }
 
     fn code(&self) -> &'static str {
         match self {
             Self::SpawnFailed(_) => "browser-spawn-failed",
-            Self::WsTimeout => "browser-ws-timeout",
+            Self::WsTimeout(_) => "browser-ws-timeout",
             Self::WsFailed(_) => "browser-ws-failed",
             Self::ConnectTimeout => "browser-cdp-connect-timeout",
             Self::ConnectFailed(_) => "browser-cdp-connect-failed",
@@ -151,7 +151,8 @@ impl OwnedBrowserLaunchError {
             Self::SpawnFailed(detail) | Self::WsFailed(detail) | Self::ConnectFailed(detail) => {
                 Some(detail)
             }
-            Self::WsTimeout | Self::ConnectTimeout => None,
+            Self::WsTimeout(detail) => Some(detail),
+            Self::ConnectTimeout => None,
         }
     }
 }
@@ -334,7 +335,9 @@ async fn devtools_ws_url_from_stderr(
     match tokio::time::timeout(timeout, read).await {
         Ok(Ok(url)) => Ok((url, reader)),
         Ok(Err(error)) => Err(error),
-        Err(_) => Err(OwnedBrowserLaunchError::WsTimeout),
+        Err(_) => Err(OwnedBrowserLaunchError::WsTimeout(safe_browser_detail(
+            &captured,
+        ))),
     }
 }