UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
Create extension to intercept URL navigation like
chrome.webNavigation.onBeforeNavigate.addListener(replace URL);
chrome.tabs.onUpdated.addListener(removeTab);
replaceURL(details) {
   chrome.tabs.update(details.tabId, { url: "http://www.google.com"});
}
removeTab(tabId, changeInfo, tab) {
   chrome.tabs.remove(tabId);
}

1. Open Chrome.
2. load the unpacked extension as above.
3. Navigate to any URL other than "www.google.com"

What is the expected behavior?
The tab is removed.

What went wrong?
The tab navigates to "www.google.com", and ISNOT removed.

Did this work before? No 

Does this work in other browsers? N/A

Chrome version: 58.0.3029.110  Channel: stable
OS Version: 10.0
Flash Version: