console.exception() and console.error() are not functionally identical

[chrisdavidmills]

@masammut commented on Wed Dec 02 2020

Request type

• Please close this issue, I accidentally submitted it without adding any details
• New documentation
• Correction or update

Details

On the page https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Console/error it says that:

Note: console.exception() is an alias for console.error(); they are functionally identical.

I have found out that at least on Chrome (Version 86.0.4240.111 64-bit) this is not true because "console.exception()" also throws the exception whereas "console.error()" does not.

Example:

console.log("console.error - Begin");
try {
  nonExistentFunction();
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
}
console.log("console.error - End");

console.log("console.exception - Begin");
try {
  nonExistentFunction();
} catch (error) {
  console.exception(error);
}
console.log("console.exception - End"); // <-- Not executed

Example on jsfiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/30z6nkhs/