The fix for this error -- tracked in  issue 660106  -- landed a while ago but it still needs a respective regression test. A probable good location to house it is the instrumentation test for RecentTabHelper [1] where simulating this situation will be much easier (versus in its unit test).

[1] https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/chrome/android/javatests/src/org/chromium/chrome/browser/offlinepages/RecentTabsTest.java