diff --git a/scripts/smoke-packaged-app.js b/scripts/smoke-packaged-app.js
index 3d48b3f..137e4fa 100755
--- a/scripts/smoke-packaged-app.js
+++ b/scripts/smoke-packaged-app.js
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ const child = spawn(executable, [], {
   detached: process.platform !== 'win32',
   env: {
     ...process.env,
-    FIRELINK_SMOKE_TEST: '1',
+  FIRELINK_SMOKE_TEST: '1',
+  FIRELINK_DISABLE_ARIA2_WEBSOCKET: '1',
     WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE: '1',
     GDK_BACKEND: 'x11',
   },
diff --git a/src-tauri/src/lib.rs b/src-tauri/src/lib.rs
index 9edbd8f..3384402 100644
--- a/src-tauri/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src-tauri/src/lib.rs
@@ -18854,6 +18854,9 @@ pub fn run() {
                     }
                 }
 
+                if std::env::var_os("FIRELINK_DISABLE_ARIA2_WEBSOCKET").is_some() {
+                    return;
+                }
                 let mut ws_retries = 0;
                 loop {
                     if ws_retries == 10 {