diff --git a/src/functional_tests/base.py b/src/functional_tests/base.py
index b587d79..7d950a4 100644
--- a/src/functional_tests/base.py
+++ b/src/functional_tests/base.py
@@ -42,7 +42,17 @@ class FunctionalTest(StaticLiveServerTestCase):
         options = webdriver.FirefoxOptions()
         if os.environ.get("HEADLESS"):
             options.add_argument("--headless")
-        browser = webdriver.Firefox(options=options)
+        try:
+            browser = webdriver.Firefox(options=options)
+        except WebDriverException as e:
+            # Geckodriver spawn race under --parallel: another worker may be
+            # mid-spawn and the binary briefly reports "wrong permissions".
+            # One sleep+retry absorbs the race; a genuine install fault will
+            # fail both attempts. See pipeline #302/#303.
+            if "geckodriver" not in str(e):
+                raise
+            time.sleep(1)
+            browser = webdriver.Firefox(options=options)
         browser.set_window_size(width, height)
         return browser
 
diff --git a/src/functional_tests/test_admin_tarot.py b/src/functional_tests/test_admin_tarot.py
index 9dd3e37..b7e1d1b 100644
--- a/src/functional_tests/test_admin_tarot.py
+++ b/src/functional_tests/test_admin_tarot.py
@@ -55,6 +55,14 @@ class TarotAdminTest(FunctionalTest):
         self.browser.find_element(By.ID, "id_username").send_keys("admin@example.com")
         self.browser.find_element(By.ID, "id_password").send_keys("correct-password")
         self.browser.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input[type=submit]").click()
+        # Wait for the POST → 302 → admin home to actually land before
+        # returning — otherwise the caller's `browser.get(...)` can race
+        # the in-flight form submit, hit /admin/login/?next=... and never
+        # recover. Same flake class as 054b0aa fixed in test_admin.py.
+        self.wait_for(lambda: self.assertIn(
+            "Site administration",
+            self.browser.find_element(By.TAG_NAME, "body").text,
+        ))
 
     # ------------------------------------------------------------------ #
     # Test 1a — admin home lists Tarot cards + Deck variants under Epic   #
diff --git a/src/functional_tests/test_jasmine.py b/src/functional_tests/test_jasmine.py
index 43bc406..cf4d9e0 100644
--- a/src/functional_tests/test_jasmine.py
+++ b/src/functional_tests/test_jasmine.py
@@ -20,4 +20,11 @@ class JasmineTest(FunctionalTest):
                 detail = "\n".join(f.text for f in failures) if failures else "(no detail)"
                 self.fail(f"{result.text}\nFailing specs:\n{detail}")
 
-        self.wait_for(check_results)
+        # wait_for_slow w. 60s ceiling — the spec suite has grown well past the
+        # 10s MAX_WAIT the default wait_for affords. Under CI contention
+        # (parallel Selenium workers competing for CPU) Jasmine's still
+        # reporting "Running..." at 10s; pipeline #303 caught this. The
+        # check_results body keeps raising AssertionError ("Running..." doesn't
+        # match the 0-failures regex) so wait_for_slow naturally retries til
+        # the result settles or the timeout fires.
+        self.wait_for_slow(check_results, timeout=60)