diff --git a/archivebox/progressmonitor/templates/progressmonitor/progress_monitor.html b/archivebox/progressmonitor/templates/progressmonitor/progress_monitor.html
index 7ddbb651..488661a5 100644
--- a/archivebox/progressmonitor/templates/progressmonitor/progress_monitor.html
+++ b/archivebox/progressmonitor/templates/progressmonitor/progress_monitor.html
@@ -1181,7 +1181,10 @@
             if (fallback) continue;
 
             const setupPlugins = crawl.setup_plugins || [];
-            if (setupPlugins.some((item) => item.status === 'started' && hookText(item).includes('chrome launch'))) {
+            const browserReady = setupPlugins.some((item) => (
+                item.status === 'succeeded' && hookText(item).includes('chrome wait')
+            ));
+            if (!browserReady && setupPlugins.some((item) => item.status === 'started' && hookText(item).includes('chrome launch'))) {
                 fallback = {
                     type: 'placeholder',
                     crawl,
@@ -1193,7 +1196,12 @@
                 continue;
             }
             const openingSnapshot = (crawl.active_snapshots || []).find((snapshot) => {
-                return !Array.isArray(snapshot) && (snapshot.all_plugins || []).some((item) => (
+                if (Array.isArray(snapshot)) return false;
+                const plugins = snapshot.all_plugins || [];
+                const tabReady = plugins.some((item) => (
+                    item.status === 'succeeded' && hookText(item).includes('chrome wait')
+                ));
+                return !tabReady && plugins.some((item) => (
                     item.status === 'started' && hookText(item).includes('chrome tab')
                 ));
             });
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index ee0eea06..a71809ca 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ services:
             - ./data:/data
             # Override abx-dl's nested VOLUME so profiles persist across containers.
             - ./data/personas:/data/personas
+        pids_limit: 2048                       # avoids low systemd task caps with Chrome and parallel extractors
         environment:
             # - ADMIN_USERNAME=admin                             # creates an admin user on first run with the given user/pass combo
             # - ADMIN_PASSWORD=SomeSecretPassword