feat: add `persistence` flag #2018

Job	Run time
saucelabs-integration-tests (edge)	3m 52s
local-integration-tests (headlessChrome)	6h 0m 12s
local-integration-tests (headlessFirefox)	6h 0m 15s
unit-tests	2m 19s
	12h 6m 38s

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