Suppress “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND” in Chrome Packaged App

Question

I get the message \"Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND\" in the console when a webview in a Chrome Packaged App tries to load a non-existent local file. This i

Answer 1

Yes, you can turn this off:

Click on the filter icon at the top of the console, and tick "Hide network messages".

You can't, however, prevent this error from happening at all: it's not generated by an uncaught exception in JS but is reported from the network stack of Chrome.