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If you try to use window.console calls in older browsers, an error will be thrown.

There are a few ways to get around this. One way is to use a console polyfill. Another way is to use a console wrapper. Yet one additional way is by creating empty functions for all the available window.console calls.

This blog post provides some code to achieve the third method listed above. The code first ensures that window.console exists. It then ensures that all functions in the Firebug Console API exist in the window.console object. We default to an empty function so older browsers don't throw errors. If a given window.console function already exists, we will use the default browser behavior.

Un-Minified Version:

/*jslint browser: true, plusplus: true */
(function (window) {
    'use strict';

    var i = 0,
        emptyFunction = function () {},
        functionNames = [
            'assert', 'clear', 'count', 'debug', 'dir',
            'dirxml', 'error', 'exception', 'group', 'groupCollapsed',
            'groupEnd', 'info', 'log', 'profile', 'profileEnd', 'table',
            'time', 'timeEnd', 'timeStamp', 'trace', 'warn'
        ];

    // Make sure window.console exists
    window.console = window.console || {};

    // Make sure all functions exist
    for (i = 0; i < functionNames.length; i++) {
        window.console[functionNames[i]] = window.console[functionNames[i]] || emptyFunction;
    }

}(window));

Minified Version:

/* https://www.skratchdot.com/2012/05/prevent-console-calls-from-throwing-errors/ */
(function(b){var a=0,c=function(){},d=["assert","clear","count","debug","dir","dirxml","error","exception","group","groupCollapsed","groupEnd","info","log","profile","profileEnd","table","time","timeEnd","timeStamp","trace","warn"];b.console=b.console||{};for(a=0;a<d.length;a++){b.console[d[a]]=b.console[d[a]]||c}}(window));