diff --git a/docs/api/index.md b/docs/api/index.md
index 9bcc42d..0ac6e57 100644
--- a/docs/api/index.md
+++ b/docs/api/index.md
@@ -79,7 +79,6 @@ app.listen(3000);
   - `app.env` defaulting to the __NODE_ENV__ or "development"
   - `app.proxy` when true proxy header fields will be trusted
   - `app.subdomainOffset` offset of `.subdomains` to ignore [2]
-  - `app.outputErrors` output err.stack to stderr [false in "test" environment]
 
 ## app.listen(...)
 
diff --git a/lib/application.js b/lib/application.js
index 00f49e4..1241754 100644
--- a/lib/application.js
+++ b/lib/application.js
@@ -81,7 +81,6 @@ app.listen = function(){
 
 app.toJSON = function(){
   return only(this, [
-    'outputErrors',
     'subdomainOffset',
     'poweredBy',
     'env'
@@ -156,8 +155,18 @@ app.createContext = function(req, res){
  */
 
 app.onerror = function(err){
-  if (!this.outputErrors) return;
+  if (!err) return;
+
+  // suppress output for custom handling
+  if (1 != this.listeners('error').length) return;
+
+  // ignore 404s
   if (404 == err.status) return;
+
+  // ignore in test env
+  if ('test' == this.env) return;
+
+  // output
   console.error();
   console.error(err.stack.replace(/^/gm, '  '));
   console.error();
diff --git a/test/application.js b/test/application.js
index b13a90d..8fbf9b8 100644
--- a/test/application.js
+++ b/test/application.js
@@ -53,7 +53,6 @@ describe('app.toJSON()', function(){
     var obj = app.toJSON();
 
     obj.should.eql({
-      outputErrors: false,
       subdomainOffset: 2,
       poweredBy: true,
       env: 'test'