I was wondering if anyone is familiar with how the Google Chrome debug.log file works. The file path is C\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application.
Based on MAC times, it appears that this log is created when Google Chrome is installed (The debug.log file was created 5 seconds after chrome.exe). It also appears that this log is continuously written to and not written to only in the event of a crash and/or error. The log also appears to contain advertisements and not just the site that the user intends to visit.
Based on the debug.log's created and last written times it appears that the first three numbers in a debug.log entry are the month and the day (205 would be Feb 5th). The last six numbers are the time (102326 would be 10hours 23minutes 26 seconds). The numbers following "INFOdeal_handler.cc" appear to be event ID's based on their consistent position in the entries. The questions I have are
Are the numbers in the beginning of the entries actually dates/times?
What does INFOdeal_handler.cc signify? Are the numbers following this actually event ID's?
What are the conditions that are written within the entries and what does expired signify?
Below are two examples of how entries are written within the debug file.
[205/102326INFOdeal_handler.cc(104)] url http//
[205/102326INFOdeal_handler.cc(115)] condition ACAW\Chrome\0
[205/102326INFOdeal_handler.cc(132)] -expired
[205/102326INFOdeal_handler.cc(115)] condition ACAW\Chrome\1
[205/102326INFOdeal_handler.cc(132)] -expired
[1015/153029INFOdeal_handler.cc(104)] url http//twitter.com [1015/153029INFOdeal_handler.cc(115)] condition ACAW\Chrome\0
[1015/153029INFOdeal_handler.cc(132)] -expired
[1015/153029INFOdeal_handler.cc(115)] condition ACAW\Chrome\1
[1015/153029INFOdeal_handler.cc(132)] -expired
Here is my guess,
"INFO" is the type of message. This would be an information message. Other logs I have seen also have "ERROR" as a second message type.
"deal_handler.cc" would be the source code module's file name. Written in C++ I assume.
"(104)" is most likely the line of code in the source code that wrote out the message.
"Expired" might be something to do with the caching. But I don't really know.
I've just had a little search in the Chromium (the open source section of Chrome) source code for deal_handler.cc to see what its purpose is, but I couldn't see it. So it looks like it's either in the "Chrome-only" bit of Chrome or possibly an extension (though by the sound of it your testing was on a clean installation)?