diff --git a/src/js/background.js b/src/js/background.js
index 9006bfaf5..35bbbe758 100644
--- a/src/js/background.js
+++ b/src/js/background.js
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ const hiddenSettingsDefault = {
 };
 
 if ( vAPI.webextFlavor.soup.has('devbuild') ) {
+    hiddenSettingsDefault.consoleLogLevel = 'info';
     hiddenSettingsDefault.trustedListPrefixes += ' user-';
 }