diff --git a/src/chrome/chromeDebugAdapter.ts b/src/chrome/chromeDebugAdapter.ts
index d67a0e2ac..0dab3df9a 100644
--- a/src/chrome/chromeDebugAdapter.ts
+++ b/src/chrome/chromeDebugAdapter.ts
@@ -392,8 +392,10 @@ export abstract class ChromeDebugAdapter implements IDebugAdapter {
 
                 // Enforce that the stopped event is not fired until we've send the response to the step that induced it.
                 // Also with a timeout just to ensure things keep moving
-                const sendStoppedEvent = () =>
-                    this._session.sendEvent(new StoppedEvent(this.stopReasonText(reason), /*threadId=*/ChromeDebugAdapter.THREAD_ID));
+                const sendStoppedEvent = () => {
+                    const exceptionText = this._exception && this._exception.description && utils.firstLine(this._exception.description);
+                    return this._session.sendEvent(new StoppedEvent(this.stopReasonText(reason), /*threadId=*/ChromeDebugAdapter.THREAD_ID, exceptionText));
+                }
                 return utils.promiseTimeout(this._currentStep, /*timeoutMs=*/300)
                     .then(sendStoppedEvent, sendStoppedEvent);
             }
diff --git a/src/utils.ts b/src/utils.ts
index 05470284c..23710d167 100644
--- a/src/utils.ts
+++ b/src/utils.ts
@@ -507,3 +507,11 @@ export function makeRegexMatchPath(regex: RegExp, aPath: string): RegExp {
 export type Partial<T> = {
     [P in keyof T]?: T[P];
 };
+
+export function getLine(msg: string, n = 0): string {
+    return msg.split('\n')[n];
+}
+
+export function firstLine(msg: string): string {
+    return getLine(msg);
+}
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