When I switch laptops or work environments, I always find myself spending a lot of time trying to remember how to configure the executable drivers for Chrome and IE.

I like to use the DefaultWebDriverSupplier especially and do my testing over a grid configuration.

I think it'd be a lot simpler to reference the standalone jar file directly in the pom.xml. This way, when I lug around the framework from site to site, I can just start it up and reference the standalone from a common maven location each and every time to stage my own grid configuration. It makes editing scripts and tests a lot simpler instead of having to configure for specific environments. It's also 1 less item I need to setup.