window.onerror not working in chrome

Question

I am trying to add an onerror event to my website.

window.onerror = function() {     alert("an error"); } 

But all I receive is:

notThere(); ReferenceError: notThere is not defined 

What am I missing?

Browser: Chrome 26.0.1410.64 m

Steps to reproduce:

• add the code to the console.
• add notThere() to the console

Answer 1

window.onerror is not triggered when the console directly generates an error. It can be triggered via setTimeout though, e.g., setTimeout(function() { notThere(); }, 0);

Possible duplicate: Chrome: Will an error in code invoked from the dev console trigger window.onerror?

Answer 2

The window.onerror works in Chrome (see jsfiddle - http://jsfiddle.net/PWSDF/), but apparently not in the console - which makes some sense.