diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 68c83835..aee7fd8b 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -193,7 +193,8 @@ RUN echo "[+] Initializing image collection..." \
         "$DATA_DIR"/archive "$DATA_DIR"/archive/users "$DATA_DIR"/personas \
         "$DATA_DIR"/tmp "$DATA_DIR"/tmp/* \
         "$TMP_DIR" "$LIB_DIR" "$PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSERS_PATH" \
-        2>/dev/null || true)
+        2>/dev/null || true) \
+    && find "$TMP_DIR" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -exec rm -rf {} +
 
 RUN chmod +x "$CODE_DIR"/bin/*.sh \
     && chmod g+w "$TMP_DIR" "$LIB_DIR" "$PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSERS_PATH"
diff --git a/bin/docker_entrypoint.sh b/bin/docker_entrypoint.sh
index 8b0b8ac9..fc63fe42 100755
--- a/bin/docker_entrypoint.sh
+++ b/bin/docker_entrypoint.sh
@@ -142,6 +142,15 @@ ensure_runtime_tree() {
     chmod_if_possible "$path"
 }
 
+ensure_runtime_tmp_tree() {
+    mkdir -p "$TMP_DIR" 2>/dev/null || true
+    [[ -e "$TMP_DIR" ]] || return 0
+    if [[ "$(id -u)" == "0" ]]; then
+        chown -R "$PUID:$PGID" "$TMP_DIR" 2>/dev/null || true
+    fi
+    chmod_if_possible "$TMP_DIR"
+}
+
 run_as_archivebox() {
     if [[ "$(id -u)" == "0" ]]; then
         setpriv --reuid="$ARCHIVEBOX_USER" --regid="$ARCHIVEBOX_USER" --init-groups "$@"
@@ -204,7 +213,7 @@ find /tmp "$TMP_DIR" -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "archivebox-chrome-profile.*" -mm
 
 ensure_dir "/home/$ARCHIVEBOX_USER"
 ensure_runtime_tree "$PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSERS_PATH"
-ensure_runtime_tree "$TMP_DIR"
+ensure_runtime_tmp_tree
 ensure_runtime_tree "$LIB_DIR"
 
 # (this check is written in blood in 2023, QEMU silently breaks things in ways that are not obvious)
diff --git a/etc/package.json b/etc/package.json
index af404498..fe64799d 100644
--- a/etc/package.json
+++ b/etc/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "archivebox",
-  "version": "0.9.34rc62",
+  "version": "0.9.34rc63",
   "repository": "github:ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox",
   "license": "MIT",
   "dependencies": {
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 1db5b89c..d4e2752c 100755
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "archivebox"
-version = "0.9.34rc62"
+version = "0.9.34rc63"
 requires-python = ">=3.13"
 description = "Self-hosted internet archiving solution."
 authors = [{name = "Nick Sweeting", email = "pyproject.toml@archivebox.io"}]
@@ -79,9 +79,9 @@ dependencies = [
     ### Extractor dependencies (optional binaries detected at runtime via shutil.which)
     ### Binary/Package Management
     "abxbus==2.5.10",         # EventBus API
-    "abxpkg>=1.11.178",        # for: detecting, versioning, and installing binaries via apt/brew/pip/npm
-    "abx-plugins>=1.11.182",  # shared ArchiveBox plugin package with Chrome/Puppeteer dependency wiring
-    "abx-dl>=1.11.182",       # shared ArchiveBox downloader package with blocking install preflight
+    "abxpkg>=1.11.179",        # for: detecting, versioning, and installing binaries via apt/brew/pip/npm
+    "abx-plugins>=1.11.183",  # shared ArchiveBox plugin package with Chrome/Puppeteer dependency wiring
+    "abx-dl>=1.11.183",       # shared ArchiveBox downloader package with blocking install preflight
     ### UUID7 backport for Python <3.14
     "uuid7>=0.1.0; python_version < '3.14'",  # provides the uuid_extensions module on Python 3.13
 ]