diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 1d1515438..97b3c5369 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -115,4 +115,4 @@ A script is included to do the download for you - run with (add the --nocd optio
 
 Start the selenium standalone with
 
-    java -jar selenium/selenium-server-standalone-2.33.0.jar -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver=./selenium/chromedriver
+    java -jar selenium/selenium-server-standalone-2.34.0.jar -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver=./selenium/chromedriver
diff --git a/bin/install_selenium_standalone b/bin/install_selenium_standalone
index 130fd424f..e895d4f57 100755
--- a/bin/install_selenium_standalone
+++ b/bin/install_selenium_standalone
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ var AdmZip = require('adm-zip')
 // Thanks to http://www.hacksparrow.com/using-node-js-to-download-files.html
 // for the outline of this code.
 var SELENIUM_URL =
-    'http://selenium.googlecode.com/files/selenium-server-standalone-2.33.0.jar';
+    'http://selenium.googlecode.com/files/selenium-server-standalone-2.34.0.jar';
 var CHROMEDRIVER_URL_MAC =
     'https://chromedriver.googlecode.com/files/chromedriver_mac32_2.0.zip';
 var CHROMEDRIVER_URL_LINUX32 =
diff --git a/conf.js b/conf.js
index 83bf8fd81..a75507e2e 100644
--- a/conf.js
+++ b/conf.js
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ exports.config = {
   // 3. sauceUser/sauceKey - to use remote Selenium servers via SauceLabs.
 
   // The location of the selenium standalone server .jar file.
-  seleniumServerJar: './selenium/selenium-server-standalone-2.33.0.jar',
+  seleniumServerJar: './selenium/selenium-server-standalone-2.34.0.jar',
   // The port to start the selenium server on, or null if the server should
   // find its own unused port.
   seleniumPort: null,
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ exports.config = {
   // ----- Capabilities to be passed to the webdriver instance.
   // For a full list of available capabilities, see
   // https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/DesiredCapabilities
+  // and
+  // https://code.google.com/p/selenium/source/browse/javascript/webdriver/capabilities.js
   capabilities: {
     'browserName': 'chrome'
   },
diff --git a/example/onJasmineNodeSpec.js b/example/onJasmineNodeSpec.js
index f52bd5fd1..974fb6f23 100644
--- a/example/onJasmineNodeSpec.js
+++ b/example/onJasmineNodeSpec.js
@@ -14,12 +14,7 @@ describe('angularjs homepage', function() {
 
   var driver = new webdriver.Builder().
       usingServer('http://localhost:4444/wd/hub').
-      withCapabilities({
-        'browserName': 'chrome',
-        'version': '',
-        'platform': 'ANY',
-        'javascriptEnabled': true
-      }).build();
+      withCapabilities(webdriver.Capabilities.chrome()).build();
 
   driver.manage().timeouts().setScriptTimeout(10000);
   var ptor = protractor.wrapDriver(driver);
diff --git a/example/onMocha.js b/example/onMocha.js
index 0cc570788..e2fe20f5b 100644
--- a/example/onMocha.js
+++ b/example/onMocha.js
@@ -18,12 +18,7 @@ describe('angularjs.org homepage', function() {
   before(function() {
     driver = new webdriver.Builder().
         usingServer('http://localhost:4444/wd/hub').
-        withCapabilities({
-          'browserName': 'chrome',
-          'version': '',
-          'platform': 'ANY',
-          'javascriptEnabled': true
-        }).build();
+        withCapabilities(webdriver.Capabilities.chrome()).build();
 
     driver.manage().timeouts().setScriptTimeout(10000);
     ptor = protractor.wrapDriver(driver);
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index de11b1ed7..10412d153 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
   ],
   "author": "Julie Ralph <ju.ralph@gmail.com>",
   "dependencies": {
-    "selenium-webdriver": ">2.32.1",
+    "selenium-webdriver": "~2.34.0",
     "minijasminenode": "~0.2.0",
     "saucelabs": "~0.1.0",
     "glob": ">=3.1.14",