diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 43bea6f53b48a..d660ebf0c5e63 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -1036,6 +1036,7 @@ jobs:
           test_targets: "
             browser.test_gl_stride
             browser.test_memory_growth_during_startup
+            browser.test_pthread_memgrowth_stale_views
             browser.test_pthread_large_pthread_allocation
             browser.test_pthread_sbrk*
             browser.test_pthread_asan*
diff --git a/test/test_browser.py b/test/test_browser.py
index 0a7679e381fdc..9f7338de774e1 100644
--- a/test/test_browser.py
+++ b/test/test_browser.py
@@ -5691,10 +5691,10 @@ def test_binary_encode(self, extra):
   def test_shell_minimal(self, args):
     self.btest_exit('browser_test_hello_world.c', cflags=['--shell-file', path_from_root('html/shell_minimal.html')] + args)
 
-  @no_chrome('https://github.com/emscripten-core/emscripten/issues/27084')
+  @no_highmem('uses INITIAL_MEMORY')
   def test_pthread_memgrowth_stale_views(self):
     self.btest_exit('test_pthread_memgrowth_stale_views.c',
-                    cflags=['-pthread', '-sALLOW_MEMORY_GROWTH', '-Wno-pthreads-mem-growth'])
+                    cflags=['-pthread', '-sINITIAL_MEMORY=10mb', '-sALLOW_MEMORY_GROWTH', '-Wno-pthreads-mem-growth'])
 
 
 class browser64(browser):