Tested in

- Google Chrome Version 58.0.3029.96 (64-bit)
- Google Chrome Version 60.0.3087.0 (Build oficial) canary (64 bits)

Tested the issue on Windows 7 using M58 #58.0.3029.81 and #58.0.3029.96 and #60.0.3088.3 and followed below steps :

1. Launched chrome and navigated to "http://createcharts.esy.es/about-blank.html" and clicked on test 
2. Observed that page redirected to chrome downloads page with about: blank url..

Attached screencast for reference.

@jm.acuna73-- COuld you please check attached screencast and confirm us if we have missed out any steps in reproducing the issue and please provide us the expected and actual issue screenshots for better traiging.

Thanks!

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Standardization: in 2010, and onwards, there are efforts to standardize the about URI scheme, and define the processing requirements for some specific URIs, in the IETF Applications Area Working Group (APPSAWG)

URI -> about:blank
Purpose -> Returns a blank HTML document with the media type text/html and character encoding UTF-8

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/About_URI_scheme)

A more basic example:

<script>
function go(){
	var win = open('about:blank','_blank');
	win.document.open();
	win.document.write('<h1>test</h1>');
	win.document.close();	
}
</script>
<input type="button" onclick="go()" value="test"/>

Testing in Mozilla Firefox, I think it has a correct browsing behavior.

Thank you for providing more feedback. Adding requester "hdodda@chromium.org" to the cc list and removing "Needs-Feedback" label.

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Go to http://createcharts.esy.es/about-blank-basic.html

(please try Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome to see the differences)

Able to reproduce this issue on Mac 10.12.4, Win-10 and Ubuntu 14.04 using chrome reported version #58.0.3029.81 and latest canary #60.0.3089.0.

This is a non-regression issue as it is observed from M30 old builds. 

Hence, marking it as untriaged to get more inputs from dev team.

Thanks...!!

It's an expected feature of the web platform that a window navigated to about:blank can be written into by the context that opened it.

There's discussion about whether or not the omnibox should display something more informative in this case (e.g. "about:blank under the control of whatever.com") but the issue described here is absolutely by design.