diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index d16736fa..a88ab5a6 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -21,6 +21,11 @@ COPY requirements.txt /requirements.txt
 
 RUN pip install --target=/dependencies -r /requirements.txt
 
+# Playwright is an alternative to Selenium
+# Excluded this package from requirements.txt to prevent arm/v6 and arm/v7 builds from failing
+# https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io/pull/1067 also musl/alpine (not supported)
+RUN pip install --target=/dependencies playwright~=1.26 \
+    || echo "WARN: Failed to install Playwright. The application can still run, but the Playwright option will be disabled."
 
 # Final image stage
 FROM python:3.8-slim
diff --git a/changedetectionio/run_all_tests.sh b/changedetectionio/run_all_tests.sh
index 2783c9b8..459513e8 100755
--- a/changedetectionio/run_all_tests.sh
+++ b/changedetectionio/run_all_tests.sh
@@ -38,6 +38,10 @@ unset WEBDRIVER_URL
 docker kill $$-test_selenium
 
 echo "TESTING WEBDRIVER FETCH > PLAYWRIGHT/BROWSERLESS..."
+# Not all platforms support playwright (not ARM/rPI), so it's not packaged in requirements.txt
+PLAYWRIGHT_VERSION=$(grep -i -E "RUN pip install.+" "$SCRIPT_DIR/../Dockerfile" | grep --only-matching -i -E "playwright[=><~+]+[0-9\.]+")
+echo "using $PLAYWRIGHT_VERSION"
+pip3 install "$PLAYWRIGHT_VERSION"
 docker run -d --name $$-test_browserless -e "DEFAULT_LAUNCH_ARGS=[\"--window-size=1920,1080\"]" --rm  -p 3000:3000  --shm-size="2g"  browserless/chrome:1.53-chrome-stable
 # takes a while to spin up
 sleep 5
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 48398276..fd5b23bb 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ jinja2-time
 
 # https://peps.python.org/pep-0508/#environment-markers
 # https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io/pull/1009
-jq ~= 1.3 ;python_version >= "3.8" and sys_platform == "linux"
-playwright~=1.26; python_version >= "3.8" and "arm" not in platform_machine and "aarch" not in platform_machine
+jq~=1.3 ;python_version >= "3.8" and sys_platform == "linux"
 
+# playwright is installed at Dockerfile build time because it's not available on all platforms