diff --git a/src/services/browser/UrlContentFetcher.ts b/src/services/browser/UrlContentFetcher.ts
index 8f4de7fbb40..b271bc2ef41 100644
--- a/src/services/browser/UrlContentFetcher.ts
+++ b/src/services/browser/UrlContentFetcher.ts
@@ -50,15 +50,20 @@ export class UrlContentFetcher {
 			return
 		}
 		const stats = await this.ensureChromiumExists()
+		const args = [
+			"--user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/128.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
+			"--disable-dev-shm-usage",
+			"--disable-accelerated-2d-canvas",
+			"--no-first-run",
+			"--disable-gpu",
+			"--disable-features=VizDisplayCompositor",
+		]
+		if (process.platform === "linux") {
+			// Fixes network errors on Linux hosts (see https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/issues/8246)
+			args.push("--no-sandbox")
+		}
 		this.browser = await stats.puppeteer.launch({
-			args: [
-				"--user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/128.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
-				"--disable-dev-shm-usage",
-				"--disable-accelerated-2d-canvas",
-				"--no-first-run",
-				"--disable-gpu",
-				"--disable-features=VizDisplayCompositor",
-			],
+			args,
 			executablePath: stats.executablePath,
 		})
 		// (latest version of puppeteer does not add headless to user agent)
diff --git a/src/services/browser/__tests__/UrlContentFetcher.spec.ts b/src/services/browser/__tests__/UrlContentFetcher.spec.ts
index 917b27c5f27..38db78b5214 100644
--- a/src/services/browser/__tests__/UrlContentFetcher.spec.ts
+++ b/src/services/browser/__tests__/UrlContentFetcher.spec.ts
@@ -125,25 +125,75 @@ describe("UrlContentFetcher", () => {
 	})
 
 	describe("launchBrowser", () => {
-		it("should launch browser with correct arguments", async () => {
-			await urlContentFetcher.launchBrowser()
-
-			expect(vi.mocked(PCR)).toHaveBeenCalledWith({
-				downloadPath: path.join("/test/storage", "puppeteer"),
+		it("should launch browser with correct arguments on non-Linux platforms", async () => {
+			// Ensure we're not on Linux for this test
+			const originalPlatform = process.platform
+			Object.defineProperty(process, 'platform', {
+				value: 'darwin' // macOS
 			})
 
-			const stats = await vi.mocked(PCR).mock.results[0].value
-			expect(stats.puppeteer.launch).toHaveBeenCalledWith({
-				args: [
-					"--user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/128.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
-					"--disable-dev-shm-usage",
-					"--disable-accelerated-2d-canvas",
-					"--no-first-run",
-					"--disable-gpu",
-					"--disable-features=VizDisplayCompositor",
-				],
-				executablePath: "/path/to/chromium",
+			try {
+				await urlContentFetcher.launchBrowser()
+
+				expect(vi.mocked(PCR)).toHaveBeenCalledWith({
+					downloadPath: path.join("/test/storage", "puppeteer"),
+				})
+
+				const stats = await vi.mocked(PCR).mock.results[0].value
+				expect(stats.puppeteer.launch).toHaveBeenCalledWith({
+					args: [
+						"--user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/128.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
+						"--disable-dev-shm-usage",
+						"--disable-accelerated-2d-canvas",
+						"--no-first-run",
+						"--disable-gpu",
+						"--disable-features=VizDisplayCompositor",
+					],
+					executablePath: "/path/to/chromium",
+				})
+			} finally {
+				// Restore original platform
+				Object.defineProperty(process, 'platform', {
+					value: originalPlatform
+				})
+			}
+		})
+
+		it("should launch browser with Linux-specific arguments", async () => {
+			// Mock process.platform to be linux
+			const originalPlatform = process.platform
+			Object.defineProperty(process, 'platform', {
+				value: 'linux'
 			})
+
+			try {
+				// Create a new instance to ensure fresh state
+				const linuxFetcher = new UrlContentFetcher(mockContext)
+				await linuxFetcher.launchBrowser()
+
+				expect(vi.mocked(PCR)).toHaveBeenCalledWith({
+					downloadPath: path.join("/test/storage", "puppeteer"),
+				})
+
+				const stats = await vi.mocked(PCR).mock.results[vi.mocked(PCR).mock.results.length - 1].value
+				expect(stats.puppeteer.launch).toHaveBeenCalledWith({
+					args: [
+						"--user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/128.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
+						"--disable-dev-shm-usage",
+						"--disable-accelerated-2d-canvas",
+						"--no-first-run",
+						"--disable-gpu",
+						"--disable-features=VizDisplayCompositor",
+						"--no-sandbox", // Linux-specific argument
+					],
+					executablePath: "/path/to/chromium",
+				})
+			} finally {
+				// Restore original platform
+				Object.defineProperty(process, 'platform', {
+					value: originalPlatform
+				})
+			}
 		})
 
 		it("should set viewport and headers after launching", async () => {