diff --git a/brozzler/cli.py b/brozzler/cli.py
index 97c2541..b0d5afa 100644
--- a/brozzler/cli.py
+++ b/brozzler/cli.py
@@ -161,8 +161,7 @@ def brozzle_page():
     if args.behavior_parameters:
         behavior_parameters = json.loads(args.behavior_parameters)
     site = brozzler.Site(None, {
-        'id': -1, 'seed': args.url, 'proxy': args.proxy,
-        'behavior_parameters': behavior_parameters,
+        'id': -1, 'seed': args.url, 'behavior_parameters': behavior_parameters,
         'username': args.username, 'password': args.password})
     page = brozzler.Page(None, {'url': args.url, 'site_id': site.id})
     worker = brozzler.BrozzlerWorker(frontier=None)
@@ -178,7 +177,7 @@ def brozzle_page():
         logging.info('wrote screenshot to %s', filename)
 
     browser = brozzler.Browser(chrome_exe=args.chrome_exe)
-    browser.start(proxy=site.proxy)
+    browser.start(proxy=args.proxy)
     try:
         outlinks = worker.brozzle_page(
                 browser, site, page, on_screenshot=on_screenshot)
@@ -260,7 +259,6 @@ def brozzler_new_site():
     rr = rethinker(args)
     site = brozzler.Site(rr, {
         'seed': args.seed,
-        'proxy': args.proxy,
         'time_limit': int(args.time_limit) if args.time_limit else None,
         'ignore_robots': args.ignore_robots,
         'warcprox_meta': json.loads(
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index a0f9152..ad9eea4 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ def find_package_data(package):
 
 setuptools.setup(
         name='brozzler',
-        version='1.1b10.dev222',
+        version='1.1b10.dev223',
         description='Distributed web crawling with browsers',
         url='https://github.com/internetarchive/brozzler',
         author='Noah Levitt',
diff --git a/tests/test_cluster.py b/tests/test_cluster.py
index 669c7bf..0f1e9e6 100644
--- a/tests/test_cluster.py
+++ b/tests/test_cluster.py
@@ -115,7 +115,6 @@ def test_brozzle_site(httpd):
     rr = doublethink.Rethinker('localhost', db='brozzler')
     site = brozzler.Site(rr, {
         'seed': 'http://localhost:%s/site1/' % httpd.server_port,
-        'proxy': 'localhost:8000',
         'warcprox_meta': {'captures-table-extra-fields':{'test_id':test_id}}})
 
     # the two pages we expect to be crawled
@@ -336,7 +335,6 @@ def test_obey_robots(httpd):
     rr = doublethink.Rethinker('localhost', db='brozzler')
     site = brozzler.Site(rr, {
         'seed': 'http://localhost:%s/site1/' % httpd.server_port,
-        'proxy': 'localhost:8000',
         'user_agent': 'im a badbot',   # robots.txt blocks badbot
         'warcprox_meta': {'captures-table-extra-fields':{'test_id':test_id}}})
 
@@ -389,7 +387,6 @@ def test_login(httpd):
     rr = doublethink.Rethinker('localhost', db='brozzler')
     site = brozzler.Site(rr, {
         'seed': 'http://localhost:%s/site2/' % httpd.server_port,
-        'proxy': 'localhost:8000',
         'warcprox_meta': {'captures-table-extra-fields':{'test_id':test_id}},
         'username': 'test_username', 'password': 'test_password'})
 
@@ -430,7 +427,6 @@ def test_seed_redirect(httpd):
     seed_url = 'http://localhost:%s/site5/redirect/' % httpd.server_port
     site = brozzler.Site(rr, {
         'seed': 'http://localhost:%s/site5/redirect/' % httpd.server_port,
-        'proxy': 'localhost:8000',
         'warcprox_meta': {'captures-table-extra-fields':{'test_id':test_id}}})
     assert site.scope['surt'] == 'http://(localhost:%s,)/site5/redirect/' % httpd.server_port