google chrome extension :: console.log() from background page?

Question

If I call console.log(\'something\'); from the popup page, or any script included off that it works fine.

However as the background page is not directly

Answer 1

In relation to the original question I'd like to add to the accepted answer by Mohamed Mansour that there is also a way to make this work the other way around:

You can access other extension pages (i.e. options page, popup page) from within the background page/script with the chrome.extension.getViews() call. As described here.

 // overwrite the console object with the right one.
var optionsPage = (  chrome.extension.getViews()  
                 &&  (chrome.extension.getViews().length > 1)  ) 
                ? chrome.extension.getViews()[1] : null;

 // safety precaution.
if (optionsPage) {
  var console = optionsPage.console;
}