diff --git a/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/HTML/TraversableNavigable.cpp b/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/HTML/TraversableNavigable.cpp
index 5e05f97ca6..fde231d79c 100644
--- a/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/HTML/TraversableNavigable.cpp
+++ b/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/HTML/TraversableNavigable.cpp
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 #include <LibWeb/HTML/DocumentState.h>
 #include <LibWeb/HTML/Navigation.h>
 #include <LibWeb/HTML/NavigationParams.h>
+#include <LibWeb/HTML/Parser/HTMLParser.h>
 #include <LibWeb/HTML/SessionHistoryEntry.h>
 #include <LibWeb/HTML/TraversableNavigable.h>
 #include <LibWeb/HTML/Window.h>
@@ -118,11 +119,28 @@ WebIDL::ExceptionOr<JS::NonnullGCPtr<TraversableNavigable>> TraversableNavigable
 {
     // 1. Let traversable be the result of creating a new top-level traversable given null and the empty string.
     auto traversable = TRY(create_a_new_top_level_traversable(page, nullptr, {}));
+    page->set_top_level_traversable(traversable);
 
-    // 2. Navigate traversable to initialNavigationURL using traversable's active document, with documentResource set to initialNavigationPostResource.
-    TRY(traversable->navigate({ .url = initial_navigation_url,
-        .source_document = *traversable->active_document(),
-        .document_resource = initial_navigation_post_resource }));
+    // AD-HOC: Mark the about:blank document as finished parsing if we're only going to about:blank
+    //         Skip the initial navigation as well. This matches the behavior of the window open steps.
+
+    if (url_matches_about_blank(initial_navigation_url)) {
+        Platform::EventLoopPlugin::the().deferred_invoke([traversable, initial_navigation_url] {
+            // FIXME: We do this other places too when creating a new about:blank document. Perhaps it's worth a spec issue?
+            HTML::HTMLParser::the_end(*traversable->active_document());
+
+            // FIXME: If we perform the URL and history update steps here, we start hanging tests and the UI process will
+            //        try to load() the initial URLs passed on the command line before we finish processing the events here.
+            //        However, because we call this before the PageClient is fully initialized... that gets awkward.
+        });
+    }
+
+    else {
+        // 2. Navigate traversable to initialNavigationURL using traversable's active document, with documentResource set to initialNavigationPostResource.
+        TRY(traversable->navigate({ .url = initial_navigation_url,
+            .source_document = *traversable->active_document(),
+            .document_resource = initial_navigation_post_resource }));
+    }
 
     // 3. Return traversable.
     return traversable;
diff --git a/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/SVG/SVGDecodedImageData.cpp b/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/SVG/SVGDecodedImageData.cpp
index a219dff7f0..5639abe8b2 100644
--- a/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/SVG/SVGDecodedImageData.cpp
+++ b/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/SVG/SVGDecodedImageData.cpp
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ ErrorOr<JS::NonnullGCPtr<SVGDecodedImageData>> SVGDecodedImageData::create(JS::R
     auto page_client = SVGPageClient::create(Bindings::main_thread_vm(), host_page);
     auto page = Page::create(Bindings::main_thread_vm(), *page_client);
     page_client->m_svg_page = page.ptr();
-    page->set_top_level_traversable(MUST(Web::HTML::TraversableNavigable::create_a_fresh_top_level_traversable(*page, AK::URL("about:blank"))));
+    page->set_top_level_traversable(MUST(Web::HTML::TraversableNavigable::create_a_new_top_level_traversable(*page, nullptr, {})));
     JS::NonnullGCPtr<HTML::Navigable> navigable = page->top_level_traversable();
     auto response = Fetch::Infrastructure::Response::create(navigable->vm());
     response->url_list().append(url);
diff --git a/Userland/Services/WebContent/PageHost.cpp b/Userland/Services/WebContent/PageHost.cpp
index c95b06bf66..c642e50eeb 100644
--- a/Userland/Services/WebContent/PageHost.cpp
+++ b/Userland/Services/WebContent/PageHost.cpp
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ PageHost::PageHost(ConnectionFromClient& client)
     : m_client(client)
 {
     auto& first_page = create_page();
-    first_page.page().set_top_level_traversable(Web::HTML::TraversableNavigable::create_a_fresh_top_level_traversable(first_page.page(), AK::URL("about:blank")).release_value_but_fixme_should_propagate_errors());
+    Web::HTML::TraversableNavigable::create_a_fresh_top_level_traversable(first_page.page(), AK::URL("about:blank")).release_value_but_fixme_should_propagate_errors();
 }
 
 PageClient& PageHost::create_page()