I am running puppeteer on a Linux VM, which does not have a display; however, I am using xvfb to remedy that.

For some background: The overall goal of this program is to navigate to a page and authenticate using puppeteer. From there, I audit several webpages using Lighthouse. I have been running this script for several weeks in headless no issues. I've recently found that the performance metrics of the headless Lighthouse runs far better than reality by running manual tests on my local machine through chrome developer tools. If it's relevant, I specifically noticed a huge gap in the number of recorded DOM nodes. Long story short, I now need to run this script in headful mode.

After installing and implementing xvfb in my code, I have been able to start a display within my script without hitting any errors. I used the answer from this question as reference: Running Puppeteer with xfvb headless : false

With all of that out of the way, onto the actual issue: this script, including the xvfb implementation, still runs flawlessly in headless mode with absolutely no timeouts despite repeated runs. When I try running it in headful mode, I consistently timeout on the puppeteer launch, even when I tried extending the timeout to 5 minutes. I've tried an absurd amount of launch-option combinations to no avail. Any and all help would be so greatly appreciated, even if it means significantly altering my approach to the problem. Thank you!