# BrowZer Related Questions

**URL:** <https://openziti.discourse.group/t/browzer-related-questions/4242>\
**Category:** BrowZer\
**Created:** [March 25, 2025, 4:53am UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/browzer-related-questions/4242 "2025-03-25T04:53:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![aidanhopper](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/openziti.discourse.group/aidanhopper/32/3249_2.png) [@aidanhopper](https://openziti.discourse.group/u/aidanhopper)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2025, 4:53am UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/browzer-related-questions/4242/1 "2025-03-25T04:53:34Z")

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I actually just found out about the capabilities of BrowZer and set up an instance, very impressive. I have a couple of questions.

1. Is there a way to disable the button that shows up on a website served with BrowZer? I'd prefer my users to not have that button.
2. Is it possible to reverse proxy connections on 443 to the BrowZer bootstrapper running on port 8446? I've tried but BrowZer complains.
3. Are there plans to support non-chromium based browsers such as Safari?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![aidanhopper](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/openziti.discourse.group/aidanhopper/32/3249_2.png) [@aidanhopper](https://openziti.discourse.group/u/aidanhopper)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2025, 6:17am UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/browzer-related-questions/4242/2 "2025-03-25T06:17:44Z")

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Another thing, BrowZer seems to have trouble loading video from Jellyfin, but not when accessing the service through the ziti-edge-tunnel. Can it be made faster somehow?

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**Author:** ![TheLumberjack](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/openziti.discourse.group/thelumberjack/32/113_2.png) [@TheLumberjack](https://openziti.discourse.group/u/TheLumberjack)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2025, 12:49pm UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/browzer-related-questions/4242/3 "2025-03-25T12:49:10Z")

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@aidanhopper - moved your browzer-relted questions out of the Ziti TV topic and promoted it to a top-level question to try to bring a different visibility to the question, to keep that other thread from going on too long, and to categorie it differently (under 'BrowZer')

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**Author:** ![curt](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/openziti.discourse.group/curt/32/6_2.png) [@curt](https://openziti.discourse.group/u/curt)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2025, 1:49pm UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/browzer-related-questions/4242/4 "2025-03-25T13:49:46Z")

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Hi @aidanhopper

Thank you for the kind words about browZer. You said _you just found out about browZer_... can you tell us how/where you discovered it?

For question 1:  
If you want to disable the button that shows up on a website served with BrowZer, you can use some of the early whitelabel support I added recently. For example, when using a shell script to start the bootstrapper, you can set this variable:

```auto
whitelabel=$(
echo '
{
    "enable": {
        "browZerButton": false,
        "browZerToastMessages": true,
        "browZerSplashScreen": true,
        "browZerThroughputChart": false
    }
}
')

```

and then set this env var: `ZITI_BROWZER_WHITELABEL="${whitelabel}"`

For question 2:  
To reverse proxy connections on 443 (terminating TLS there) to the BrowZer bootstrapper running on port 8446, use these env vars:

```auto
ZITI_BROWZER_LOAD_BALANCER_PORT=443
ZITI_BROWZER_BOOTSTRAPPER_SCHEME=http 
ZITI_BROWZER_BOOTSTRAPPER_LISTEN_PORT=8446 

```

For question 3:  
Support for non-chromium browsers such as Safari has begun but is not yet complete. Once released, this is how we will support iOS-based form factors (such as iPhone and iPad)

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**Author:** ![curt](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/openziti.discourse.group/curt/32/6_2.png) [@curt](https://openziti.discourse.group/u/curt)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2025, 1:54pm UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/browzer-related-questions/4242/5 "2025-03-25T13:54:40Z")

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I have an issue in my backlog concerning Jellyfin streaming, and will get to soon.

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**Author:** ![aidanhopper](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/openziti.discourse.group/aidanhopper/32/3249_2.png) [@aidanhopper](https://openziti.discourse.group/u/aidanhopper)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2025, 2:59pm UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/browzer-related-questions/4242/6 "2025-03-25T14:59:06Z")

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Hey Curt and Clint, appreciate the replies.

I've known that something known as BrowZer has existed since I started learning OpenZiti, but I skipped over it cause I was still learning the basics of identity/service configuration and integrating it with my application. Since researching my problem I came across a Ziti-TV episode about BrowZer and finally learned exactly what it does. It's a cool piece of tech.

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**Author:** ![aidanhopper](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/openziti.discourse.group/aidanhopper/32/3249_2.png) [@aidanhopper](https://openziti.discourse.group/u/aidanhopper)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2025, 8:17pm UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/browzer-related-questions/4242/7 "2025-03-25T20:17:48Z")

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When trying to disable the button with

```auto
ZITI_BROWZER_WHITELABEL='{"enable": {"browZerButton":false,"browZerToastMessages":true,"browZerSplashScreen":true,"browZerThroughputChart":false}}'

```

I get an error when I try to connect

```auto
Mar 25 20:16:24 ziti node[16430]: {"level":"error","message":"Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'browZerButtonIconSvgUrl')","stack":"TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'browZerButtonIconSvgUrl')\n

```

and BrowZer crashes. Am I missing something?

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**Author:** ![curt](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/openziti.discourse.group/curt/32/6_2.png) [@curt](https://openziti.discourse.group/u/curt)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2025, 1:01pm UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/browzer-related-questions/4242/8 "2025-03-26T13:01:29Z")

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Apologies. You will also need the `branding` stanza. For example:

```auto
whitelabel=$(
echo '
{
    "enable": {
        "browZerButton": false,
        "browZerToastMessages": true,
        "browZerSplashScreen": true,
        "browZerThroughputChart": false
    },
    "branding": {
        "browZerName": "<YOUR ALTERNATE NAME FOR BROWZER>",
        "browZerSplashMessage": "Hang Tight while we Bootstrap your private web app",
        "browZerButtonIconSvgUrl": "https://netfoundry.io/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/netfoundry-icon-color.svg",
        "browZerCSS": "https://<YOUR_BOOTSTRAPPER_HOST>/ziti-browzer-css.css"
    }
}
')

```

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**Author:** ![aidanhopper](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/openziti.discourse.group/aidanhopper/32/3249_2.png) [@aidanhopper](https://openziti.discourse.group/u/aidanhopper)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2025, 8:50pm UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/browzer-related-questions/4242/9 "2025-03-26T20:50:20Z")

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That worked thanks!

Another question, is there a way to programmatically add, remove, and edit bootstrapper targets served by BrowZer so I don't have to restart BrowZer each time I modify the targets?

Ideally there would be API endpoints I could use to modify the targets like I can with the main OpenZiti project.