Selenium: Maximizing Chrome and Firefox through a RemoteWebDriver

Having issues because your browsers driven by a RemoteWebDriver says "no such element"? Maybe other windows interfere.
Nevertheless, you can try putting it in fullscreen.
Chrome:

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DesiredCapabilities capability = DesiredCapabilities.chrome(); LinkedList<String> switches = new LinkedList<>(); switches.add("--start-maximized"); capability.setCapability("webdriver.chrome.driver", ".\\chromedriver.exe"); capability.setCapability("chrome.switches", switches); // ... RemoteWebDriver driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL(this.hub), capability);

A list of chrome command line arguments: http://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/
Firefox:

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1 2	// ... driver.manage().window().maximize();