diff --git a/app_pojavlauncher/src/main/assets/components/forge_installer/forge_installer.jar b/app_pojavlauncher/src/main/assets/components/forge_installer/forge_installer.jar
index b1cf6365f..c9475cb38 100644
Binary files a/app_pojavlauncher/src/main/assets/components/forge_installer/forge_installer.jar and b/app_pojavlauncher/src/main/assets/components/forge_installer/forge_installer.jar differ
diff --git a/app_pojavlauncher/src/main/assets/components/forge_installer/version b/app_pojavlauncher/src/main/assets/components/forge_installer/version
index ca72a434c..e650fdcf5 100644
--- a/app_pojavlauncher/src/main/assets/components/forge_installer/version
+++ b/app_pojavlauncher/src/main/assets/components/forge_installer/version
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1687691695288
\ No newline at end of file
+1687971356220
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/forge_installer/src/main/java/git/artdeell/forgeinstaller/Agent.java b/forge_installer/src/main/java/git/artdeell/forgeinstaller/Agent.java
index a36d9a2f7..a9272cbd6 100644
--- a/forge_installer/src/main/java/git/artdeell/forgeinstaller/Agent.java
+++ b/forge_installer/src/main/java/git/artdeell/forgeinstaller/Agent.java
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import java.awt.event.WindowEvent;
 import java.lang.instrument.Instrumentation;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Timer;
 
 import javax.swing.AbstractButton;
 import javax.swing.JDialog;
@@ -20,6 +21,8 @@ public class Agent implements AWTEventListener {
     private boolean forgeWindowHandled = false;
     private final boolean suppressProfileCreation;
 
+    private final Timer componentTimer = new Timer();
+
     public Agent(boolean ps) {
         this.suppressProfileCreation = ps;
     }
@@ -30,15 +33,20 @@ public class Agent implements AWTEventListener {
         Window window = windowEvent.getWindow();
         if(windowEvent.getID() == WindowEvent.WINDOW_OPENED) {
             if(!forgeWindowHandled) { // false at startup, so we will handle the first window as the Forge one
-                handleForgeWindow(window);
-                forgeWindowHandled = true;
+                forgeWindowHandled =  handleForgeWindow(window);
+                if(forgeWindowHandled) {
+                    componentTimer.cancel();
+                    componentTimer.purge();
+                }else{
+                    componentTimer.schedule(new ComponentTimeoutTask(), 30000);
+                }
             }else if(window instanceof JDialog) { // expecting a new dialog
                 handleDialog(window);
             }
         }
     }
 
-    public void handleForgeWindow(Window window) {
+    public boolean handleForgeWindow(Window window) {
         List<Component> components = new ArrayList<>();
         insertAllComponents(components, window, new MainWindowFilter());
         AbstractButton okButton = null;
@@ -56,11 +64,13 @@ public class Agent implements AWTEventListener {
             }
         }
         if(okButton == null) {
-            System.out.println("Failed to set all the UI components.");
+            System.out.println("Failed to set all the UI components, wil try again in the next window");
             System.exit(17);
+            return false;
         }else{
             ProfileFixer.storeProfile();
             EventQueue.invokeLater(okButton::doClick); // do that after forge actually builds its window, otherwise we set the path too fast
+            return true;
         }
     }
 
@@ -70,6 +80,7 @@ public class Agent implements AWTEventListener {
         if(components.size() == 1) {
             // another common trait of them - they only have one option pane in them,
             // so we can discard the rest of the dialog structure
+            // also allows us to discard dialogs with progress bars which older installers use
             JOptionPane optionPane = (JOptionPane) components.get(0);
             if(optionPane.getMessageType() == JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE) { // forge doesn't emit information messages for other reasons yet
                 System.out.println("The install was successful!");
diff --git a/forge_installer/src/main/java/git/artdeell/forgeinstaller/ComponentTimeoutTask.java b/forge_installer/src/main/java/git/artdeell/forgeinstaller/ComponentTimeoutTask.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a24c2ad89
--- /dev/null
+++ b/forge_installer/src/main/java/git/artdeell/forgeinstaller/ComponentTimeoutTask.java
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+package git.artdeell.forgeinstaller;
+
+import java.util.TimerTask;
+
+public class ComponentTimeoutTask extends TimerTask {
+    @Override
+    public void run() {
+        System.out.println("Initialization timed out!");
+        System.exit(17);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/forge_installer/src/main/java/git/artdeell/forgeinstaller/DialogFilter.java b/forge_installer/src/main/java/git/artdeell/forgeinstaller/DialogFilter.java
index d528b6946..8771b84a6 100644
--- a/forge_installer/src/main/java/git/artdeell/forgeinstaller/DialogFilter.java
+++ b/forge_installer/src/main/java/git/artdeell/forgeinstaller/DialogFilter.java
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import java.awt.*;
 public class DialogFilter implements ComponentFilter{
     @Override
     public boolean checkComponent(Component component) {
-        return component instanceof JOptionPane;
+        return component instanceof JOptionPane
+                || component instanceof JProgressBar;
     }
 }