How do I talk to Firebug from a Web Worker?

Question

My web workers are becoming increasingly complicated and I'm sorely missing Firebug access while working with them. This:

console.log("test");

Does not produce anything from a web worker. I've also tried the following:

dump("test");

And that doesn't produce any output either.

Firefox version:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5

Firebug version 1.4X.5

Answer 1

You can't print to console directly. You have to send messages from worker threads to the main window and then print to console from there. See this article for details: http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2009/08/25/web-workers-errors-and-debugging/.