diff --git a/src/common/endoflife.py b/src/common/endoflife.py
index 1cc61816..30da1414 100644
--- a/src/common/endoflife.py
+++ b/src/common/endoflife.py
@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@ def list_products(method, products_filter=None, pathname="website/products"):
     return products_with_method
 
 
-def fetch_url(url, retry_count=5, timeout=10, data=None, headers=None, encoding='utf-8'):
+# Keep the default timeout high enough to avoid errors with web.archive.org.
+def fetch_url(url, retry_count=5, timeout=30, data=None, headers=None, encoding='utf-8'):
     last_exception = None
 
     headers = {'User-Agent': USER_AGENT} | {} if headers is None else headers
diff --git a/src/firefox.py b/src/firefox.py
index 04617ed4..4ca347e4 100644
--- a/src/firefox.py
+++ b/src/firefox.py
@@ -129,8 +129,7 @@ def get_version_and_date(release_page: str, release_version: str) -> Tuple[str,
 
 
 def make_bs_request(url: str) -> BeautifulSoup:
-    # requests to www.mozilla.org often time out, retry in case of failures
-    response = endoflife.fetch_url(url, timeout=10, retry_count=5)
+    response = endoflife.fetch_url(url)
     return BeautifulSoup(response, features="html5lib")
 
 
diff --git a/src/maven.py b/src/maven.py
index 3d11ba72..c76bb7ef 100644
--- a/src/maven.py
+++ b/src/maven.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ def valid_version(version):
 
 def fetch_json(group_id, artifact_id, start):
     url = f"https://search.maven.org/solrsearch/select?q=g:{group_id}+AND+a:{artifact_id}&core=gav&rows=100&wt=json&start={start}"
-    response = endoflife.fetch_url(url, retry_count=5)
+    response = endoflife.fetch_url(url)
     return json.loads(response)