UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/67.0.3396.99 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. create a browser extension having the following background page code and the 'webNavigation' permission:

chrome.webNavigation.onBeforeNavigate.addListener((details) => {
    console.log('onbeforenavigate called for url', details.url);
});

alternatively installed the attached extension.
the extension sets an event listener to onbeforenavigate which prints a message to the console when it's called 

2. go to chrome://settings: 
- in the "on startup" section select "continue where i left off". 
- turn off "Continue running background apps when Google Chrome is closed"

3. leave a single tab open, for example "https://www.bing.com"

4. restart the browser
5. open the test extension background page developer tool and examine the console output

What is the expected behavior?
onBeforeNavigate event handler should be called for the main frame of site in the restored tab. the "test extension" background page console should display:

"onbeforenavigate called for url https://www.bing.com/"

What went wrong?
onBeforeNavigate event handler is not always called for the main frame of the restored tab

Did this work before? N/A 

Does this work in other browsers? N/A

Chrome version: 67.0.3396.99  Channel: stable
OS Version: 6.1 (Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2)
Flash Version:
 

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