diff --git a/test/e2e/helpers.js b/test/e2e/helpers.js
index b3f74418a017..d950f0c0582d 100644
--- a/test/e2e/helpers.js
+++ b/test/e2e/helpers.js
@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ async function withFixtures(options, testSuite) {
   const phishingPageServer = new PhishingWarningPageServer();
 
   let webDriver;
+  let driver;
+  const errors = [];
   let failed = false;
   try {
     await ganacheServer.start(ganacheOptions);
@@ -110,8 +112,12 @@ async function withFixtures(options, testSuite) {
     ) {
       await ensureXServerIsRunning();
     }
-    const { driver } = await buildWebDriver(driverOptions);
-    webDriver = driver;
+    driver = (await buildWebDriver(driverOptions)).driver;
+    webDriver = driver.driver;
+
+    if (process.env.SELENIUM_BROWSER === 'chrome') {
+      await driver.checkBrowserForExceptions();
+    }
 
     await testSuite({
       driver,
@@ -120,7 +126,7 @@ async function withFixtures(options, testSuite) {
     });
 
     if (process.env.SELENIUM_BROWSER === 'chrome') {
-      const errors = await driver.checkBrowserForConsoleErrors(driver);
+      errors.concat(await driver.checkBrowserForConsoleErrors(driver));
       if (errors.length) {
         const errorReports = errors.map((err) => err.message);
         const errorMessage = `Errors found in browser console:\n${errorReports.join(
@@ -137,10 +143,20 @@ async function withFixtures(options, testSuite) {
     failed = true;
     if (webDriver) {
       try {
-        await webDriver.verboseReportOnFailure(title);
+        await driver.verboseReportOnFailure(title);
       } catch (verboseReportError) {
         console.error(verboseReportError);
       }
+      if (
+        errors.length === 0 &&
+        driver.exceptions.length > 0 &&
+        failOnConsoleError
+      ) {
+        const errorMessage = `Errors found in browser console:\n${driver.exceptions.join(
+          '\n',
+        )}`;
+        throw Error(errorMessage);
+      }
     }
     throw error;
   } finally {
@@ -151,7 +167,7 @@ async function withFixtures(options, testSuite) {
         await secondaryGanacheServer.quit();
       }
       if (webDriver) {
-        await webDriver.quit();
+        await driver.quit();
       }
       if (dapp) {
         for (let i = 0; i < numberOfDapps; i++) {
diff --git a/test/e2e/webdriver/driver.js b/test/e2e/webdriver/driver.js
index 1969ddfcf5bb..4507d490513d 100644
--- a/test/e2e/webdriver/driver.js
+++ b/test/e2e/webdriver/driver.js
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ class Driver {
     this.browser = browser;
     this.extensionUrl = extensionUrl;
     this.timeout = timeout;
+    this.exceptions = [];
     // The following values are found in
     // https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/blob/trunk/javascript/node/selenium-webdriver/lib/input.js#L50-L110
     // These should be replaced with string constants 'Enter' etc for playwright.
@@ -429,6 +430,15 @@ class Driver {
     return browserLogs;
   }
 
+  async checkBrowserForExceptions() {
+    const { exceptions } = this;
+    const cdpConnection = await this.driver.createCDPConnection('page');
+    await this.driver.onLogException(cdpConnection, function (exception) {
+      const { description } = exception.exceptionDetails.exception;
+      exceptions.push(description);
+    });
+  }
+
   async checkBrowserForConsoleErrors() {
     const ignoredLogTypes = ['WARNING'];
     const ignoredErrorMessages = [