UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/68.0.3440.106 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Attach a click event listener to a DOM element, and make it open a new window with `window.open` with the URL `https://chrome.google.com/webstore`. Save a reference in a variable.
2. Later, call the `close()` method on that saved window reference.

Code sample:

```
<a href="#" id="store">Open Chrome web store</a>
```

```
document.querySelector('#store').addEventListener('click', (evt) => {
   evt.preventDefault();
   let windowRef = window.open('https://chrome.google.com/webstore', '_blank');

   setTimeout(() => {
      windowRef && windowRef.close(); // The tab doesn't close here
   }, 2000);
});
```

What is the expected behavior?
The opened Chrome webstore tab/window should close.

What went wrong?
The tab/window does not close in Chrome.

No error messages are printed in the console, even with verbose logging levels.

Did this work before? N/A 

Does this work in other browsers? Yes

Chrome version: 68.0.3440.106  Channel: stable
OS Version: OS X 10.13.2
Flash Version: 

See attached .html test case. The test case runs in

* Firefox 61
* Safari 11

It seems URLs on the format `https://chrome.google.com/webstore` are treated differently in Chrome?
 

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