diff --git a/app/extensions/brave/about-blank.html b/app/extensions/brave/about-blank.html
index e69de29bb2d..3024252cb98 100644
--- a/app/extensions/brave/about-blank.html
+++ b/app/extensions/brave/about-blank.html
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<!-- This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+   - License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+   - file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. -->
+<html>
+  <head>
+    <meta charset="utf-8">
+    <meta name="availableLanguages" content="">
+    <meta name="defaultLanguage" content="en-US">
+    <title data-l10n-id="aboutBlank"></title>
+    <script src='js/about.js'></script>
+    <script src="ext/l20n.min.js" async></script>
+    <link rel="localization" href="locales/{locale}/preferences.properties">
+  </head>
+  <body />
+</html>
diff --git a/app/extensions/brave/locales/en-US/preferences.properties b/app/extensions/brave/locales/en-US/preferences.properties
index b688c1311e0..f8965b25f9a 100644
--- a/app/extensions/brave/locales/en-US/preferences.properties
+++ b/app/extensions/brave/locales/en-US/preferences.properties
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ startsWithOptionHomePage=my home page
 startsWithOptionNewTabPage=the new tab page
 newTabMode=A new tab shows
 newTabBlank=blank
+aboutBlank=about:blank
 newTabNewTabPage=the new tab page
 newTabHomePage=my home page
 newTabDefaultSearchEngine=default search engine
