UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/51.0.2704.79 Chrome/51.0.2704.79 Safari/537.36

Example URL:
https://github.com/larvit/chromebug

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. See git-repo
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What is the expected behavior?
base href should remain intact (in the example being "/")

What went wrong?
base href gets removed to an empty string ""

Does it occur on multiple sites: Yes

Is it a problem with a plugin? No 

Did this work before? N/A 

Does this work in other browsers? Yes 

Chrome version: 51.0.2704.79  Channel: stable
OS Version: Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit
Flash Version: 

Tested in Firefox and it works there. Not tested in other browsers.