diff --git a/packages/basic-crawler/src/internals/basic-crawler.ts b/packages/basic-crawler/src/internals/basic-crawler.ts
index cc27e608a71a..1debf5a29987 100644
--- a/packages/basic-crawler/src/internals/basic-crawler.ts
+++ b/packages/basic-crawler/src/internals/basic-crawler.ts
@@ -798,6 +798,14 @@ export class BasicCrawler<Context extends CrawlingContext = BasicCrawlingContext
         return this.requestQueue.fetchNextRequest();
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Executed when `errorHandler` finishes or the request is successful.
+     * Can be used to clean up orphaned browser pages.
+     */
+    protected async _cleanupContext(
+        _crawlingContext: Context,
+    ) {}
+
     /**
      * Wrapper around requestHandler that fetches requests from RequestList/RequestQueue
      * then retries them in a case of an error, etc.
@@ -916,6 +924,8 @@ export class BasicCrawler<Context extends CrawlingContext = BasicCrawlingContext
                 throw secondaryError;
             }
         } finally {
+            await this._cleanupContext(crawlingContext);
+
             this.crawlingContexts.delete(crawlingContext.id);
         }
     }
diff --git a/packages/browser-crawler/src/internals/browser-crawler.ts b/packages/browser-crawler/src/internals/browser-crawler.ts
index 94796cbf5caa..8e2f0c3595eb 100644
--- a/packages/browser-crawler/src/internals/browser-crawler.ts
+++ b/packages/browser-crawler/src/internals/browser-crawler.ts
@@ -426,6 +426,11 @@ export abstract class BrowserCrawler<
         });
     }
 
+    protected override async _cleanupContext(crawlingContext: Context): Promise<void> {
+        const { page } = crawlingContext;
+        await page.close().catch((error: Error) => this.log.debug('Error while closing page', { error }));
+    }
+
     /**
      * Wrapper around requestHandler that opens and closes pages etc.
      */
@@ -466,34 +471,30 @@ export abstract class BrowserCrawler<
         // So we must not save the session prior to making sure it was used only once, otherwise we would use it twice.
         const { request, session } = crawlingContext;
 
-        try {
-            if (!request.skipNavigation) {
-                await this._handleNavigation(crawlingContext);
-                tryCancel();
+        if (!request.skipNavigation) {
+            await this._handleNavigation(crawlingContext);
+            tryCancel();
 
-                await this._responseHandler(crawlingContext);
-                tryCancel();
+            await this._responseHandler(crawlingContext);
+            tryCancel();
 
-                // save cookies
-                // TODO: Should we save the cookies also after/only the handle page?
-                if (this.persistCookiesPerSession) {
-                    const cookies = await crawlingContext.browserController.getCookies(page);
-                    tryCancel();
-                    session?.setCookies(cookies, request.loadedUrl!);
-                }
+            // save cookies
+            // TODO: Should we save the cookies also after/only the handle page?
+            if (this.persistCookiesPerSession) {
+                const cookies = await crawlingContext.browserController.getCookies(page);
+                tryCancel();
+                session?.setCookies(cookies, request.loadedUrl!);
             }
+        }
 
-            await addTimeoutToPromise(
-                () => Promise.resolve(this.userProvidedRequestHandler(crawlingContext)),
-                this.requestHandlerTimeoutMillis,
-                `requestHandler timed out after ${this.requestHandlerTimeoutMillis / 1000} seconds.`,
-            );
-            tryCancel();
+        await addTimeoutToPromise(
+            () => Promise.resolve(this.userProvidedRequestHandler(crawlingContext)),
+            this.requestHandlerTimeoutMillis,
+            `requestHandler timed out after ${this.requestHandlerTimeoutMillis / 1000} seconds.`,
+        );
+        tryCancel();
 
-            if (session) session.markGood();
-        } finally {
-            await page.close().catch((error: Error) => this.log.debug('Error while closing page', { error }));
-        }
+        if (session) session.markGood();
     }
 
     protected _enhanceCrawlingContextWithPageInfo(crawlingContext: Context, page: CommonPage, createNewSession?: boolean): void {
diff --git a/test/core/crawlers/browser_crawler.test.ts b/test/core/crawlers/browser_crawler.test.ts
index 4b5fb1883e01..dc066b54fef9 100644
--- a/test/core/crawlers/browser_crawler.test.ts
+++ b/test/core/crawlers/browser_crawler.test.ts
@@ -227,6 +227,35 @@ describe('BrowserCrawler', () => {
         expect(isEvaluated).toBeTruthy();
     });
 
+    test('errorHandler has open page', async () => {
+        const requestList = await RequestList.open({
+            sources: [
+                { url: 'http://example.com/?q=1' },
+            ],
+        });
+
+        const result: string[] = [];
+
+        const browserCrawler = new BrowserCrawlerTest({
+            browserPoolOptions: {
+                browserPlugins: [puppeteerPlugin],
+            },
+            requestList,
+            requestHandler: async (ctx) => {
+                throw new Error('Test error');
+            },
+            maxRequestRetries: 1,
+            errorHandler: async (ctx, error) => {
+                result.push(await ctx.page.evaluate(() => window.location.origin));
+            },
+        });
+
+        await browserCrawler.run();
+
+        expect(result.length).toBe(1);
+        expect(result[0]).toBe('http://example.com');
+    });
+
     test('should allow modifying gotoOptions by pre navigation hooks', async () => {
         const requestList = await RequestList.open({
             sources: [