diff --git a/packages_rs/nextclade-web/Cargo.toml b/packages_rs/nextclade-web/Cargo.toml
index 08f8b8da2..31a38b3dc 100644
--- a/packages_rs/nextclade-web/Cargo.toml
+++ b/packages_rs/nextclade-web/Cargo.toml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ console_error_panic_hook = "=0.1.7"
 eyre = "=0.6.8"
 getrandom = { version = "=0.2.10", features = ["js"] }
 itertools = "=0.11.0"
-js-sys = { version = "=0.3.64", features = [] }
+js-sys = "=0.3.64"
 log = "=0.4.19"
 nextclade = { path = "../nextclade" }
 schemars = { version = "=0.8.12", features = ["chrono", "either", "enumset", "indexmap1"] }
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ serde = { version = "=1.0.164", features = ["derive"] }
 serde-wasm-bindgen = { version = "=0.5.0" }
 wasm-bindgen = { version = "=0.2.87", features = ["serde-serialize"] }
 wasm-logger = "=0.2.0"
-web-sys = { version = "=0.3.64", features = ["console"] }
+web-sys = { version = "=0.3.64", features = ["console", "Window", "Event", "CustomEvent", "Worker", "WorkerGlobalScope", "WorkerNavigator", "WorkerOptions", "WorkerLocation"] }
 
 [build-dependencies]
 nextclade = { path = "../nextclade" }
diff --git a/packages_rs/nextclade-web/src/lib.rs b/packages_rs/nextclade-web/src/lib.rs
index c2c9a50cb..9e5325a2b 100644
--- a/packages_rs/nextclade-web/src/lib.rs
+++ b/packages_rs/nextclade-web/src/lib.rs
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
+use crate::wasm::panic_hook;
 use wasm_bindgen::prelude::wasm_bindgen;
 
 #[wasm_bindgen(start)]
 pub fn main() {
   wasm_logger::init(wasm_logger::Config::default());
-  console_error_panic_hook::set_once();
+  panic_hook::set_once();
 }
 
 mod wasm;
diff --git a/packages_rs/nextclade-web/src/wasm/mod.rs b/packages_rs/nextclade-web/src/wasm/mod.rs
index b5f7dee46..cb5c1ee7e 100644
--- a/packages_rs/nextclade-web/src/wasm/mod.rs
+++ b/packages_rs/nextclade-web/src/wasm/mod.rs
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 pub mod jserr;
 pub mod main;
+pub mod panic_hook;
 pub mod seq_autodetect;
diff --git a/packages_rs/nextclade-web/src/wasm/panic_hook.rs b/packages_rs/nextclade-web/src/wasm/panic_hook.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b854e51a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages_rs/nextclade-web/src/wasm/panic_hook.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,119 @@
+use eyre::Report;
+/// Adapted from https://github.com/rustwasm/console_error_panic_hook
+use log;
+use schemars::_private::NoSerialize;
+use std::panic::{set_hook, PanicInfo};
+use std::sync::Once;
+use wasm_bindgen::prelude::wasm_bindgen;
+use wasm_bindgen::{JsError, JsValue};
+use web_sys::Event;
+
+#[wasm_bindgen]
+extern "C" {
+  #[wasm_bindgen(js_namespace = console)]
+  fn error(msg: String);
+
+  type Error;
+
+  #[wasm_bindgen(constructor)]
+  fn new() -> Error;
+
+  #[wasm_bindgen(structural, method, getter)]
+  fn stack(error: &Error) -> String;
+}
+
+fn hook_impl(info: &PanicInfo) {
+  let mut msg = info.to_string();
+
+  // Add the error stack to our message.
+  //
+  // This ensures that even if the `console` implementation doesn't
+  // include stacks for `console.error`, the stack is still available
+  // for the user. Additionally, Firefox's console tries to clean up
+  // stack traces, and ruins Rust symbols in the process
+  // (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1519569) but since
+  // it only touches the logged message's associated stack, and not
+  // the message's contents, by including the stack in the message
+  // contents we make sure it is available to the user.
+  msg.push_str("\n\nStack:\n\n");
+  let e = Error::new();
+  let stack = e.stack();
+  msg.push_str(&stack);
+
+  // Safari's devtools, on the other hand, _do_ mess with logged
+  // messages' contents, so we attempt to break their heuristics for
+  // doing that by appending some whitespace.
+  // https://github.com/rustwasm/console_error_panic_hook/issues/7
+  msg.push_str("\n\n");
+
+  js_sys::eval(
+    // language=javascript
+    r#"
+    'use strict';
+
+    (function() {
+       throw new Error('<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>')
+    })()
+  "#,
+  )
+  .map_err(|err| {
+    log::error!("js_sys::eval failed: {err:#?}");
+  })
+  .ok();
+
+  send_error_event().unwrap();
+
+  // Finally, log the panic with `console.error`!
+  // log::error!("{}", &msg);
+  // error(msg);
+
+  // wasm_bindgen::throw_val(JsValue::from_str("Hello"));
+
+  // wasm_bindgen::throw_val(JsValue::from(JsError::new(&msg)));
+
+  // js_sys::Function::new_no_args("{\
+  //
+  // \
+  // ");
+  //
+  // JsError::new("message")
+}
+
+fn send_error_event() -> Result<(), JsValue> {
+  let global = js_sys::global();
+  if global.is_null() {
+    log::info!("{}", global.to_string());
+  } else {
+    log::info!("no global");
+  }
+
+  if let Some(window) = web_sys::window() {
+    log::info!("window");
+    if !window.dispatch_event(&Event::new("error")?)? {
+      log::error!("Unable to dispatch error event");
+    }
+  } else {
+    log::info!("no window");
+  }
+  Ok(())
+}
+
+/// A panic hook for use with
+/// [`std::panic::set_hook`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/panic/fn.set_hook.html)
+/// that logs panics into
+/// [`console.error`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Console/error).
+///
+/// On non-wasm targets, prints the panic to `stderr`.
+pub fn hook(info: &PanicInfo) {
+  hook_impl(info);
+}
+
+/// Set the `console.error` panic hook the first time this is called. Subsequent
+/// invocations do nothing.
+#[inline]
+pub fn set_once() {
+  static SET_HOOK: Once = Once::new();
+  SET_HOOK.call_once(|| {
+    set_hook(Box::new(hook));
+  });
+}
diff --git a/packages_rs/nextclade-web/src/workers/launcher.worker.ts b/packages_rs/nextclade-web/src/workers/launcher.worker.ts
index 0605bd834..ff3714b9e 100644
--- a/packages_rs/nextclade-web/src/workers/launcher.worker.ts
+++ b/packages_rs/nextclade-web/src/workers/launcher.worker.ts
@@ -94,6 +94,12 @@ class LauncherWorkerImpl {
   }
 
   private onError(error: unknown) {
+    console.log('onError', { this: this, error })
+
+    if (!this) {
+      return
+    }
+
     this.analysisGlobalStatusObservable.next(AlgorithmGlobalStatus.failed)
     this.analysisResultsObservable.error(sanitizeError(error))
     void this.destroy() // eslint-disable-line no-void