diff --git a/packages/playwright-core/src/cli/driver.ts b/packages/playwright-core/src/cli/driver.ts
index b389d9f8002eb..619ca44c846db 100644
--- a/packages/playwright-core/src/cli/driver.ts
+++ b/packages/playwright-core/src/cli/driver.ts
@@ -35,6 +35,10 @@ export function runDriver() {
   });
   // eslint-disable-next-line no-restricted-properties
   const transport = new PipeTransport(process.stdout, process.stdin);
+  // The client may exit while messages are still in flight. Ignore the EPIPE so the
+  // driver keeps running until stdin closes, and then closes the browsers gracefully.
+  // eslint-disable-next-line no-restricted-properties
+  process.stdout.on('error', () => {});
   transport.onmessage = (message: string) => dispatcherConnection.dispatch(JSON.parse(message));
   // Certain Language Binding JSON parsers (e.g. .NET) do not like strings with lone surrogates.
   const isJavaScriptLanguageBinding = !process.env.PW_LANG_NAME || process.env.PW_LANG_NAME === 'javascript';