diff --git a/frontend-utils/Cargo.toml b/frontend-utils/Cargo.toml
index 599d09807..49b030a55 100644
--- a/frontend-utils/Cargo.toml
+++ b/frontend-utils/Cargo.toml
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ async-net = "2.0.0"
 futures-lite = "2.3.0"
 webbrowser = "0.8.14"
 reqwest = { version = "0.12.3", default-features = false, features = ["rustls-tls", "cookies", "charset", "http2", "macos-system-configuration"] }
+tokio = { workspace = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 tempfile = "3"
diff --git a/frontend-utils/src/backends/navigator.rs b/frontend-utils/src/backends/navigator.rs
index 48f051853..46b71ba69 100644
--- a/frontend-utils/src/backends/navigator.rs
+++ b/frontend-utils/src/backends/navigator.rs
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ use std::path::Path;
 use std::rc::Rc;
 use std::sync::{Arc, Mutex};
 use std::time::Duration;
+use tokio::task;
 use tracing::warn;
 use url::{ParseError, Url};
 
@@ -237,17 +238,19 @@ impl<F: FutureSpawner, I: NavigatorInterface> NavigatorBackend for ExternalNavig
 
                 request_builder = request_builder.body(body_data);
 
-                let response = request_builder.send().await.map_err(|e| {
-                    let inner = if e.is_connect() {
-                        Error::InvalidDomain(processed_url.to_string())
-                    } else {
-                        Error::FetchError(e.to_string())
-                    };
-                    ErrorResponse {
-                        url: processed_url.to_string(),
-                        error: inner,
-                    }
-                })?;
+                let response = task::unconstrained(request_builder.send())
+                    .await
+                    .map_err(|e| {
+                        let inner = if e.is_connect() {
+                            Error::InvalidDomain(processed_url.to_string())
+                        } else {
+                            Error::FetchError(e.to_string())
+                        };
+                        ErrorResponse {
+                            url: processed_url.to_string(),
+                            error: inner,
+                        }
+                    })?;
 
                 let url = response.url().to_string();
 
@@ -464,7 +467,6 @@ mod tests {
     use ruffle_core::socket::SocketAction::{Close, Connect, Data};
     use std::net::SocketAddr;
     use std::str::FromStr;
-    use tokio::task;
 
     use super::*;