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copied!<p>I'm trying to create a javascript error logging infrastructure.</p> <p>I'm trying to set <code>window.onerror</code> to be my error handler. It works in IE 6, but when I run it in Firefox, it runs into some conflicting <code>onerror</code> method. </p> <pre><code>var debug = true; MySite.Namespace.ErrorLogger.prototype = { //My error handling function. //If it's not in debug mode, I should get an alert telling me the error. //If it is, give a different alert, and let the browser handle the error. onError: function(msg, url, lineNo) { alert('onError: ' + msg); if (!debug) { alert('not debug mode'); return true; } else { alert(msg); return false; } } } //Document ready handler (jQuery shorthand) $(function() { log = $create(MySite.Namespace.ErrorLogger); window.onerror = log.onError; $(window).error(function(msg, url, line) { log.onError(msg, url, line); }); }); </code></pre> <p>If I use <code>setTimeout("eval('a')", 1);</code> where '<code>a</code>' is an undefined variable, my error handler is what's fired (it works). However, my error-logger needs to catch all errors thrown by clients accessing the website, not just incorrect code in one place.</p> <p>The code is on a .js page that is being called from the base page (C#) of a website. The site also uses jQuery, so I have a function that overrides the jQuery bind function, and that function works fine in both Firefox 3 and IE 6.</p> <p>I know that Firefox is seeing the error because it shows up in both the Error Console and Firebug, but <em>my</em> <code>window.onerror</code> function is still not being called.</p> <p>Any thoughts on how to override what Firefox is doing?</p>

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