diff --git a/main.js b/main.js
index 76c2c2a..b52b10c 100644
--- a/main.js
+++ b/main.js
@@ -14,6 +14,14 @@ const { spawn } = require("child_process");
 const fs = require("fs");
 const WebSocket = require("ws");
 
+// A browser has no business dying because its stdout went away. Launched from
+// a shell — a dev run, a test harness — Theseus inherits that shell's pipe;
+// when the shell exits the pipe breaks, and the next console.log raises EPIPE
+// in the main process, which Electron reports as a fatal uncaught exception.
+// These streams only ever carry diagnostics, and by then nobody is reading
+// them, so a write that cannot land is not an error worth stopping for.
+for (const stream of [process.stdout, process.stderr]) stream.on("error", () => {});
+
 // Packaged builds ship the resolver and tor/ as unpacked resources (they can't
 // run from inside app.asar); dev runs read them from the repo.
 const RES_DIR = app.isPackaged ? process.resourcesPath : __dirname;