diff --git a/browser/base/content/browser.js b/browser/base/content/browser.js
index 8ab656748bed..f497b1379277 100755
--- a/browser/base/content/browser.js
+++ b/browser/base/content/browser.js
@@ -4209,10 +4209,10 @@ var XULBrowserWindow = {
     // unsupported
   },
 
-  forceInitialBrowserRemote: function() {
+  forceInitialBrowserRemote: function(aRemoteType) {
     let initBrowser =
       document.getAnonymousElementByAttribute(gBrowser, "anonid", "initialBrowser");
-    return initBrowser.frameLoader.tabParent;
+    gBrowser.updateBrowserRemoteness(initBrowser, true, aRemoteType, null);
   },
 
   forceInitialBrowserNonRemote: function(aOpener) {
diff --git a/testing/talos/talos/pageloader/chrome/pageloader.js b/testing/talos/talos/pageloader/chrome/pageloader.js
index fbe67b4941d2..604379729806 100644
--- a/testing/talos/talos/pageloader/chrome/pageloader.js
+++ b/testing/talos/talos/pageloader/chrome/pageloader.js
@@ -221,10 +221,6 @@ function plInit() {
       var browserLoadFunc = function (ev) {
         browserWindow.removeEventListener('load', browserLoadFunc, true);
 
-        function firstPageCanLoadAsRemote() {
-          return E10SUtils.canLoadURIInProcess(pageUrls[0], Ci.nsIXULRuntime.PROCESS_TYPE_CONTENT);
-        }
-
         // do this half a second after load, because we need to be
         // able to resize the window and not have it get clobbered
         // by the persisted values
@@ -232,20 +228,20 @@ function plInit() {
                      // For e10s windows, since bug 1261842, the initial browser is remote unless
                      // it attempts to browse to a URI that should be non-remote (landed at bug 1047603).
                      //
-                     // However, when it loads such URI and reinitializes as non-remote, we lose the
-                     // load listener and the injected tpRecordTime.
-                     //
-                     // The preferred pageloader behaviour in e10s is to run the pages as as remote,
-                     // so if the page can load as remote, we will load it as remote.
+                     // However, when it loads a URI that requires a different remote type,
+                     // we lose the load listener and the injected tpRecordTime.remote,
                      //
                      // It also probably means that per test (or, in fact, per pageloader browser
                      // instance which adds the load listener and injects tpRecordTime), all the
                      // pages should be able to load in the same mode as the initial page - due
                      // to this reinitialization on the switch.
                      if (browserWindow.gMultiProcessBrowser) {
-                       if (!firstPageCanLoadAsRemote())
+                       let remoteType = E10SUtils.getRemoteTypeForURI(pageUrls[0], true);
+                       if (remoteType) {
+                         browserWindow.XULBrowserWindow.forceInitialBrowserRemote(remoteType);
+                       } else {
                          browserWindow.XULBrowserWindow.forceInitialBrowserNonRemote(null);
-                       // Implicit else: initial browser in e10s is remote by default.
+                       }
                      }
 
                      browserWindow.resizeTo(winWidth, winHeight);
diff --git a/xpfe/appshell/nsIXULBrowserWindow.idl b/xpfe/appshell/nsIXULBrowserWindow.idl
index 40f1898c8f4d..6c5d4c5422fe 100644
--- a/xpfe/appshell/nsIXULBrowserWindow.idl
+++ b/xpfe/appshell/nsIXULBrowserWindow.idl
@@ -43,12 +43,11 @@ interface nsIXULBrowserWindow : nsISupports
                                 in boolean isAppTab);
 
   /**
-   * Find the initial browser of the window and set its remote attribute.
-   * This can be used to ensure that there is a remote browser in a new
-   * window when it first spawns.
-   *
+   * Find the initial browser of the window and set its remote attributes.
+   * This can be used to ensure that there is a browser in a new window of the
+   * correct type when it first spawns.
    */
-  nsITabParent forceInitialBrowserRemote();
+  void forceInitialBrowserRemote(in AString aRemoteType);
   void forceInitialBrowserNonRemote(in mozIDOMWindowProxy openerWindow);
 
   /**