diff --git a/src/test/mochitest/browser_dbg-babel-scopes.js b/src/test/mochitest/browser_dbg-babel-scopes.js
index e719954f5d..e7e3d756e5 100644
--- a/src/test/mochitest/browser_dbg-babel-scopes.js
+++ b/src/test/mochitest/browser_dbg-babel-scopes.js
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 /* Any copyright is dedicated to the Public Domain.
  * http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ */
 
+// This test can be really slow on debug platforms and should be split.
+requestLongerTimeout(4);
+
 // Tests loading sourcemapped sources for Babel's compile output.
 
 async function breakpointScopes(dbg, fixture, { line, column }, scopes) {
@@ -86,8 +89,6 @@ async function assertScopes(dbg, items) {
 }
 
 add_task(async function() {
-  requestLongerTimeout(2);
-
   await pushPref("devtools.debugger.features.map-scopes", true);
 
   const dbg = await initDebugger("doc-babel.html");