diff --git a/.github/workflows/playwright.yaml b/.github/workflows/playwright.yaml
index 6cc614d80..431d673d2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/playwright.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/playwright.yaml
@@ -42,6 +42,15 @@ jobs:
       - name: Setup network
         run: docker network create frontend
 
+      - name: Pull container images
+        # Pull all images this job uses up front, in parallel (compose pulls
+        # services concurrently). Otherwise each image is pulled on demand inside
+        # the first step that uses it — serially across steps (~90s total:
+        # mariadb+phpfpm in Composer install, node in Build assets,
+        # nginx+playwright in Run playwright). Pulling concurrently overlaps the
+        # smaller images under the large playwright pull.
+        run: docker compose pull --quiet phpfpm node playwright nginx mariadb
+
       - name: Composer install
         run: |
           docker compose run --rm phpfpm composer install
@@ -56,11 +65,18 @@ jobs:
           docker compose run --rm node npm run build
 
       - name: Run playwright
-        env:
-          CI: "true"
+        # `-e CI=true` propagates CI *into* the container — `docker compose run`
+        # does not forward host env by default, so without it playwright.config.ts
+        # sees no CI and falls back to its defaults (50% of cores ≈ 2 workers,
+        # retries 0). The explicit flag is what actually enables workers: 3 and
+        # retries: 2 on the runner.
+        #
+        # The mcr.microsoft.com/playwright image already bundles the browsers for
+        # its version, kept in lockstep with @playwright/test in package.json, so
+        # `playwright install --with-deps` only re-runs apt for libraries that are
+        # already present. Run the tests directly.
         run: |
-          docker compose run --rm playwright npx playwright install --with-deps
-          docker compose run --rm playwright npx playwright test
+          docker compose run --rm -e CI=true playwright npx playwright test
 
       - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
         if: always()
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a415a2a3b..21b955d76 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,12 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+- Sped up the Playwright CI job: it now runs in parallel (3 workers, sized to the 4-vCPU public
+  GitHub runner) instead of the default 2, added `ipc: host` to the `playwright` Compose
+  service so parallel Chromium does not exhaust Docker's default 64 MB `/dev/shm`, pulls the
+  container images once up front in parallel instead of on demand serially across steps
+  (~90s of pulls overlapped), and dropped the redundant `playwright install --with-deps` step
+  (the pinned Playwright image already ships the matching browsers).
 - Removed a dead statement in `MediaRepository::getPaginator()` that referenced the undefined
   variables `$page` and `$itemsPerPage`; the computed value was never used.
 - Fixed inverted user-type guard in `UserService::activateExternalUser()`: the "user is not of
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index c9f2f16a3..cb0d6c344 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -162,6 +162,10 @@ services:
     # https://playwright.dev/docs/docker
     # Version should match the one in `package.json`.
     image: mcr.microsoft.com/playwright:v1.57.0
+    # Chromium needs more than Docker's default 64 MB /dev/shm once tests run in
+    # parallel; sharing the host IPC namespace avoids renderer crashes
+    # ("Target closed"). See the Playwright Docker docs.
+    ipc: host
     networks:
       - app
     depends_on:
diff --git a/playwright.config.ts b/playwright.config.ts
index 103de5202..4835d74e7 100644
--- a/playwright.config.ts
+++ b/playwright.config.ts
@@ -20,8 +20,11 @@ export default defineConfig({
   forbidOnly: !!process.env.CI,
   /* Retry on CI only */
   retries: process.env.CI ? 2 : 0,
-  /* Opt out of parallel tests on CI. */
-  workers: process.env.CI ? 1 : undefined,
+  /* CI runs on a 4-vCPU GitHub-hosted runner (public repo); use 3 workers and
+   * leave one core for the browser/system. Tests mock every network call per
+   * page (see assets/tests/**\/test-helper.js), so they are isolated and safe
+   * to run in parallel. Locally, Playwright's default (50% of cores) applies. */
+  workers: process.env.CI ? 3 : undefined,
   /* Reporter to use. See https://playwright.dev/docs/test-reporters */
   // Open never added to avoid the CI pipeline to get stuck in a html-reporter-mode.
   reporter: [['html', { open: 'never' }]],