I am currently working with some help and it has been going well, until this incident. function runCommand(commandString) { commands = new Object(); commands.clear = function(){ $('#terminal').html('') } parameters = commandString.split(" "); command = parameters.shift(); if( commands.hasOwnProperty(command)){ commandscommand; } else { $('#terminal').append(command+' command not recognized.'+''); } } The person who was helping me made this function, so I could run the "terminal-like" browsers that I needed to work on. It works fine when using Firefox, heres an example: guest@shell:/$ sudo make me sandwich sudo command not recognized. guest@shell:/$ clear *clears* guest@shell:/$ clear But under google chrome this happen: guest@shell:/$ sudo make me sandwich sudo command not recognized. guest@shell:/$ clear clear command not recognized. I believe that it has something to do with "commands.hasOwnProperty(command)" that is preventing it from working properly. I am using JQuery the javascript library to build the website, and I need to know how to solve this problem, or an alternative.