diff --git a/brozzler/chrome.py b/brozzler/chrome.py
index 1f55839..450f352 100644
--- a/brozzler/chrome.py
+++ b/brozzler/chrome.py
@@ -112,9 +112,17 @@ class Chrome:
         try:
             with sqlite3.connect(cookie_location) as conn:
                 cur = conn.cursor()
-                cur.execute('UPDATE cookies SET persistent = 1')
+                cur.execute('UPDATE cookies SET is_persistent = 1')
         except sqlite3.Error:
-            self.logger.error('exception updating cookie DB', exc_info=True)
+            try:
+                # db schema changed around version 66, this is the old schema
+                with sqlite3.connect(cookie_location) as conn:
+                    cur = conn.cursor()
+                    cur.execute('UPDATE cookies SET persistent = 1')
+            except sqlite3.Error:
+                self.logger.error(
+                        'exception updating cookie DB %s', cookie_location,
+                        exc_info=True)
 
         cookie_db = None
         try:
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index d5527c4..289d224 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ def find_package_data(package):
 
 setuptools.setup(
         name='brozzler',
-        version='1.1b13.dev288',
+        version='1.1b13.dev289',
         description='Distributed web crawling with browsers',
         url='https://github.com/internetarchive/brozzler',
         author='Noah Levitt',