698954 - better console dump() API for debugging chrome code.

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Heather Arthur [:harth]]

I'm a big user of dump() for debugging components in chrome code. I've been using node.js's console.log() for dumping command-line messages and it's been nice [http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.5.10/api/stdio.html].

There's talk in bug 616586 about creating an API for logging to the error console, but I think it would be nice to be able to console.log() / console.error() to the command line.

A big downside to dump() is having to add a newline to every call. It'd also be nice to be able to have a shortcut to change console colors for debugging purposes (console.red("message")??).

It doesn't have to be 'console' of course because of the error console confusion.