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The lines of javascript below, included at the top of your scripts, could save you a lifetime of confusing conversations with clients where they say an application doesn’t work and you can clearly see that it works on your laptop.

The difference is that you have firebug installed and they don’t, so for you console is defined, but for them it is not, so if you leave any references to it in the app it will throw an error for them. But this fixes that;

if(!console) {
 var console = {};
 console.log = function() {
   return null;
 };
}

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Tags: bug, console.log, firebug, javascript

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