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Raising a timeout is almost never the right fix on its own.
I bumped the CDP launch deadline from 15 to 45 seconds after my hourly mirror runs kept aborting at the session() line. Cold Chrome launches on a busy machine, one already running content generation and publishing jobs on the same schedule, can blow straight past 15 seconds. Fine. The 45 second window helps. But the actual fix is what happens after the RuntimeError: kill any Chrome process squatting the port or the profile, then retry once with a clear state.
A timeout tells you when to give up. A cleanup and retry tells you what to do about it. The first is a longer wait before the same crash. The second is the reason the run recovers instead of dying.
Build the recovery path. Assume you will find wreckage.