Chrome Version: 66.0.3359.170, 67.0.3396.30
OS Version: OS X 10.13.4

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Find a site that throws a safe browsing page (ex. flycapetown.co.za)
2. Navigate to the site from another window, using the "Open Link in New tab" function
3. Click the "Back to safety" button
4. Land on about:blank

What is the expected result?
User is directed to their new tab page, or the tab is auto-closed.


This may be a feature request instead of a bug, but our community experts flagged it as a poor user experience.

It looks like there are three common behaviors for the back to safety button:

Behavior #1: If you open a new tab and paste that site directly, then click "back to safety", you're reverted to the new tab page.

Behavior #2: If you open that site from another site (example: do a Google search for that site and click through, opening in the same tab) and then click "back to safety", you're reverted back to the previous page.

Behavior #3: If you open that site in a new tab from another site (example: do a Google Search for that site, then right-click "open in a new tab" from the result page) and then click "back to safety", you're shown the "about:blank" page in Chrome, as there is no previous history in that tab.

This request is to change the behavior on the third item to either also redirect to the new tab page, or to close the tab (jumping the user back to the tab they were on previously).

Thanks!