*Originally reported by* **Federico Bond (Bitbucket: [federicobond](https://bitbucket.org/federicobond), GitHub: [federicobond](https://github.com/federicobond))** ---------------------------------------- Chrome does not support cookies in pages opened with the `file://` protocol. We can replace the cookie with `localStorage`, which is widely supported across browsers and is probably more appropriate for this use case. ---------------------------------------- - Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/ned/coveragepy/issue/611