diff --git a/brozzler/cli.py b/brozzler/cli.py
index d6b6321..8c9faaa 100644
--- a/brozzler/cli.py
+++ b/brozzler/cli.py
@@ -179,8 +179,8 @@ def brozzle_page(argv=None):
         logging.info('wrote screenshot to %s', filename)
 
     browser = brozzler.Browser(chrome_exe=args.chrome_exe)
-    browser.start(proxy=args.proxy)
     try:
+        browser.start(proxy=args.proxy)
         outlinks = worker.brozzle_page(
                 browser, site, page, on_screenshot=on_screenshot)
         logging.info('outlinks: \n\t%s', '\n\t'.join(sorted(outlinks)))
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 34b62b6..85b8efc 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ def find_package_data(package):
 
 setuptools.setup(
         name='brozzler',
-        version='1.1b11.dev243',
+        version='1.1b11.dev244',
         description='Distributed web crawling with browsers',
         url='https://github.com/internetarchive/brozzler',
         author='Noah Levitt',