is it possible to run chrome in debug mode?
google-chrome, google-chrome-devtools, javascript, logging, webkit
Solution
Yes!
You can start chrome from the command line on a mac. See a previous question here
something like this:
`/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome`
You can also pass a flag to make chrome output to a log file by appending:
`--enable-logging --v=1`
This should write a log file `chrome_debug.log` which lives somewhere in your `~/.config/` directory.
Then you can tail that log. My command for that is:
`$ tail -F ~/.config/chromium/chrome_debug.log`
Your path to the log file may be different.
Hope that helps!
Problem
Firstly I'm really not sure if this is a question for Super-User or Stack-Overflow. It may certainly useful for other developers but it's not a specific code question. In Google Chrome is there a way to look at render engine exceptions or general debugging info? I have some code which i'm 99% certain is crashing the render/repaint engine for chrome but (i'm on a mac) in the Console.app I don't get notifications for the exception. I'm wondering if theres a way of forcing chrome to be much more verbose in it's logging? Perhaps it's a webkit thing rather than chrome specific. Let me know if this really isn't for stack overflow and I'll remove/close the question like I said I'm aware it's not code specific.