How to simulate a browser crash with Puppeteer? - puppeteer

Question

I have a lot of tests that are being run with Jest and Puppeteer. I'm creating a new browser instance with puppeteer.launch() before each test, in order to avoid situations where re-using the browser results in flaky behavior. When I run all my tests together, occasionally the browser crashes after launching, and I can detect this by listening for the browser.on('disconnected', ...) event.
I'm now trying to handle that case, and re-create the browser if needed. The problem is how can I force the Chromium browser to crash, and send the same disconnected event? I've tried loading the page with special chrome:// URLs (see below).
Here's the simple example I'm working on:
import puppeteer from 'puppeteer';
async function getPage(url) {
const browser = await puppeteer.launch({});
const page = await browser.newPage();
await browser.on('disconnected', async () => {
console.log('############ browser crashed #############');
});
await page.goto(url, {waitUntil: 'load'});
return page;
};
describe('Raw Puppeteer Test', () => {
let page;
beforeEach(async () => {
page = await getPage('chrome://kill/');
});
afterEach(async () => {
await page.close();
await page.browser().close();
});
it('should relaunch the browser and re-run if the browser crashes', async () => {
const el = await page.waitForSelector('h1');
expect(el).not.toBeNull();
});
});
While kill and crash do appear to crash the Chromium browser, it doesn't send the disconnected event that a real crash would. I also tried inducebrowsercrashforrealz but that just results in a net::ERR_INVALID_URL error.
Is there a way to simulate a failed browser initialization in Puppeteer, that mimics a real-life crash?