Stop suppressing JavaScript errors

Question

I'm using Firebug to view JavaScript errors. But I'm also using jQuery. For some reason, I never see JavaScript errors when using jQuery and this is one of the biggest problems with working with jQuery in the first place.

There's no particular code to show, just imagine alert(areareg); where areareg is undefined or any sort of JavaScript error, and Firebug won't tell me about it. The JavaScript will simply fail without warning or notification of any sort. This is always the case, in any project where I've used jQuery and it's the only reason I don't like jQuery; because it's notoriously difficult to debug when something goes wrong.

For some reason I've even had trouble finding this question raised online, let alone answered. But I figured I'd give it a try here:

1. Is there any way to make jQuery stop suppressing error messages?
2. Am I the only one in the world who has always had this problem with jQuery?

EDIT: I use both Firefox (with Firebug) and Chrome, and I only use the non-minified version of jQuery. Still, I have never in my entire life seen a jQuery error message of any kind, neither useful nor useless, nor in fact normal JavaScript errors, when using jQuery.

Answer 1

I use google Chrome for my debugging, and it's pretty good, it shows all the jquery errors as well (as Alfred said, if you use minified version, you wont get any meaningful name in your errors, so it's better to use the raw source)

Answer 2

Well, despite your impression, jQuery itself doesn't do anything to "suppress" error messages. Now, Firefox does tend to throw away certain kinds of exceptions, notably like what you describe. I often find that wrapping a whole Javascript block in a try ... catch with an alert call should an exception happen is a useful way to deal with it, but it's still irritating.