diff --git a/java/src/org/openqa/selenium/manager/SeleniumManager.java b/java/src/org/openqa/selenium/manager/SeleniumManager.java
index e2a37fe8e8864..b3608892921de 100644
--- a/java/src/org/openqa/selenium/manager/SeleniumManager.java
+++ b/java/src/org/openqa/selenium/manager/SeleniumManager.java
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ public Result getDriverPath(Capabilities options, boolean offline) {
       arguments.add("--offline");
     }
 
-    Proxy proxy = (Proxy) options.getCapability("proxy");
+    Proxy proxy = Proxy.extractFrom(options);
     if (proxy != null) {
       if (proxy.getSslProxy() != null) {
         arguments.add("--proxy");