Accessing console and devtools of extension's background.js

Question

I just started out with Google Chrome extensions and I can\'t seem to log to console from my background js. When an error occurs (because of a syntax error, for example), I

Answer 1

I had the same problem, in my case the logging was set to "Hide all" in the console tab in Chrome Developer tools. I had not even realised this was an option, and I can't remember turning it off