diff --git a/choreographer/browser.py b/choreographer/browser.py
index 2bb27be5..c21b2f95 100644
--- a/choreographer/browser.py
+++ b/choreographer/browser.py
@@ -82,7 +82,8 @@ def __init__(
             and not isinstance(stderr, int) ):
             try: stderr.fileno()
             except io.UnsupportedOperation:
-                warnings.warn("A value has been passed to debug_browser which is not compatible with python. The default value if deug_browser is True is whatever the value of sys.stderr is. sys.stderr may be many things but debug_browser must be a value Popen accepts for stderr, or True.")
+                warnings.warn("A value has been passed to debug_browser which is not compatible with python's Popen. This may be because one was passed to Browser or because sys.stderr has been overrided by a framework. Browser logs will not be handled by python in this case.")
+                stderr = None
 
 
 
diff --git a/tests/conftest.py b/tests/conftest.py
index b274b0f0..c61769be 100644
--- a/tests/conftest.py
+++ b/tests/conftest.py
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ def pytest_addoption(parser):
 async def browser(request):
     headless = request.config.getoption("--headless")
     debug = request.config.get_verbosity() > 2
-    debug_browser = None if debug else False # what's going on here
+    debug_browser = None if debug else False
     browser = await choreo.Browser(
         headless=headless, debug=debug, debug_browser=debug_browser
     )