diff --git a/frontend/src/shared/viewTeardown.ts b/frontend/src/shared/viewTeardown.ts
index 7c282033..c43af725 100644
--- a/frontend/src/shared/viewTeardown.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/shared/viewTeardown.ts
@@ -2,18 +2,29 @@ import type { Dispatch } from '@reduxjs/toolkit';
 import { removeViewCard } from '@/shared/state/dashboardLayoutSlice';
 import { getViewWebview } from '@/shared/viewWebviewRegistry';
 
-// A wedged app must never hold a card open; cap the whole quiesce so delete stays responsive. Common case (about:blank is a trivial nav) resolves in well under this.
-const QUIESCE_BUDGET_MS = 250;
+// A wedged app must never hold a card open; cap the whole quiesce so delete stays responsive. The
+// old 250ms timer was fail-OPEN: on a loaded machine the about:blank commit takes longer, the timer
+// won, and the destroy ripped a LIVE GPU surface mid-composite, which is the whole-app crash family
+// (ENG-228, Haik's close-crashes). Now we wait for the commit EVENT with a generous ceiling; the
+// UI already hid the card, so the extra wait costs nothing visible.
+const QUIESCE_BUDGET_MS = 1500;
 
-// Navigate a doomed card's webview to about:blank so the running app's heavy GPU surfaces are released BEFORE React destroys the <webview>, leaving only a trivial surface to tear down. Bounded + fail-open.
+// Navigate a doomed card's webview to about:blank so the running app's heavy GPU surfaces are released BEFORE React destroys the <webview>, leaving only a trivial surface to tear down.
 export async function quiesceViewWebview(outputId: string): Promise<void> {
   const wv = getViewWebview(outputId);
   if (!wv) return;
   try {
+    const committed = new Promise<void>((resolve) => {
+      const done = (): void => { wv.removeEventListener('did-navigate', done); resolve(); };
+      wv.addEventListener('did-navigate', done);
+    });
+    void wv.loadURL('about:blank').catch(() => {});
     await Promise.race([
-      wv.loadURL('about:blank').catch(() => {}),
+      committed,
       new Promise<void>((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, QUIESCE_BUDGET_MS)),
     ]);
+    // One settle frame after commit so the compositor lets go of the old surface before React unmounts the element.
+    await new Promise<void>((resolve) => requestAnimationFrame(() => resolve()));
   } catch {
     // webview already torn down; nothing to quiesce
   }