fix(camofox): bump browser idle timeout to 1h for VNC human handoffs - #183
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…-min reaper Human-in-the-loop checkout/login via VNC generates no camofox API activity, so the server's 5-minute default idle timeout kills the browser mid-payment (hit live 2026-07-28 during a Ticket Tailor checkout handoff). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The camofox server reaps the browser after 5 idle minutes (
BROWSER_IDLE_TIMEOUT_MSdefault), and only API calls count as activity — VNC keyboard/mouse input from a human is invisible to it. During the live checkout handoff test today (2026-07-28) it killed the browser mid-payment three separate times.One hour covers any realistic human handoff (payment, login, CAPTCHA). Added to the VPN compose template's camofox service (plain mode has no camofox sidecar).
Related follow-up (not in this PR): the camofox image's vnc plugin doesn't re-size browser windows after a playwright relaunch — windows come back 200×200 and the VNC shows black. Workaround today was an in-container xdotool resize loop; proper fix belongs in NimbleCoAI/camofox.
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