I am trying to watch my javascript code using the console.log(text) command - and it does work... but the console gets flushed everytime the url changes.

Is there any way to persist my console logs between page changes?

I am trying to watch my javascript code using the console.log(text) command - and it does work... but the console gets flushed everytime the url changes.

Is there any way to persist my console logs between page changes?

• javascript
• google-chrome

• 1 [In Chrome] It looks like you can preserve the Network activity log between navigation but not the console itself. Take a look at an identical question stackoverflow.com/questions/5928492/… – Colin Commented Jun 8, 2011 at 14:39

4 Answers 4

Click on the bottom-right corner gear icon in the Chrome developers tool, check 'Preserve log upon navigation' option and you are done.

For the record, these days both Firefox and Chrome have 'persist' options in their inspectors / conosole. You need to right click in the console window and then select the relevant option tfrom the popup menu.

There isn't a way to do this yet but from what I've read it is a future feature they will implement. Here is the Issue ticket on it: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=77058

EDIT: Chrome has implemented this feature. Read the answer below

There's only 1 way that I know of, but not with Chrome: With the built-in Web Inspector in Firefox 4+, which doesn't flush the logs between pages.

@scrappedcola notes that Firebug does this as well, but I'm referring to the built-in inspector.