diff --git a/utils/build/build-playwright-driver.sh b/utils/build/build-playwright-driver.sh
index 471d7505f5..5e56bf0896 100755
--- a/utils/build/build-playwright-driver.sh
+++ b/utils/build/build-playwright-driver.sh
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ function build {
   NODE_DIR=$1
   SUFFIX=$2
   ARCHIVE=$3
-  RUN_DRIVER=$4
   NODE_URL=https://nodejs.org/dist/v${NODE_VERSION}/${NODE_DIR}.${ARCHIVE}
 
   echo "Building playwright-${PACKAGE_VERSION}-${SUFFIX}"
@@ -57,16 +56,6 @@ function build {
   rm package-lock.json
 
   cd ..
-  if [[ "${RUN_DRIVER}" == *".cmd" ]]; then
-    cp ../../${RUN_DRIVER} ./playwright.cmd
-    chmod +x ./playwright.cmd
-  elif [[ "${RUN_DRIVER}" == *".sh" ]]; then
-    cp ../../${RUN_DRIVER} ./playwright.sh
-    chmod +x ./playwright.sh
-  else
-    echo "Unsupported RUN_DRIVER ${RUN_DRIVER}"
-    exit 1
-  fi
 
   # NPM install does intentionally set the modification date back to 1985 for all the files. This confuses language binding
   # update mechanisms, which expect the modification date to be recent to decide which file to override. See:
@@ -77,8 +66,8 @@ function build {
   zip -q -r ../playwright-${PACKAGE_VERSION}-${SUFFIX}.zip .
 }
 
-build "node-v${NODE_VERSION}-darwin-x64" "mac" "tar.gz" "run-driver-posix.sh"
-build "node-v${NODE_VERSION}-darwin-arm64" "mac-arm64" "tar.gz" "run-driver-posix.sh"
-build "node-v${NODE_VERSION}-linux-x64" "linux" "tar.gz" "run-driver-posix.sh"
-build "node-v${NODE_VERSION}-linux-arm64" "linux-arm64" "tar.gz" "run-driver-posix.sh"
-build "node-v${NODE_VERSION}-win-x64" "win32_x64" "zip" "run-driver-win.cmd"
+build "node-v${NODE_VERSION}-darwin-x64" "mac" "tar.gz"
+build "node-v${NODE_VERSION}-darwin-arm64" "mac-arm64" "tar.gz"
+build "node-v${NODE_VERSION}-linux-x64" "linux" "tar.gz"
+build "node-v${NODE_VERSION}-linux-arm64" "linux-arm64" "tar.gz"
+build "node-v${NODE_VERSION}-win-x64" "win32_x64" "zip"
diff --git a/utils/build/run-driver-posix.sh b/utils/build/run-driver-posix.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index af4ed059c5..0000000000
--- a/utils/build/run-driver-posix.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-SCRIPT_PATH="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" ; pwd -P)"
-if [ -z "$PLAYWRIGHT_NODEJS_PATH" ]; then
-  PLAYWRIGHT_NODEJS_PATH="$SCRIPT_PATH/node"
-fi
-"$PLAYWRIGHT_NODEJS_PATH" "$SCRIPT_PATH/package/cli.js" "$@"
diff --git a/utils/build/run-driver-win.cmd b/utils/build/run-driver-win.cmd
deleted file mode 100755
index 69e98709a0..0000000000
--- a/utils/build/run-driver-win.cmd
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-@echo off
-setlocal
-if not defined PLAYWRIGHT_NODEJS_PATH set PLAYWRIGHT_NODEJS_PATH=%~dp0node.exe
-"%PLAYWRIGHT_NODEJS_PATH%" "%~dp0package\cli.js" %*
\ No newline at end of file