[Bug]: will-navigate doesn't fire when navigating to about: URLs
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### Issue Details
* **Electron Version:** 5.0.7
* **Operating System:** Windows 10
### Expected Behavior
Based on the documentation, I expect that navigating to `"about:blank"` will trigger the webcontent's `will-navigate` event.
### Actual Behavior
`will-navigate` does not get triggered.
The [docs](https://electronjs.org/docs/api/web-contents#event-will-navigate) make no mention of `"about:blank"` being an exception, and so I expect that `will-navigate` should get emitted when navigating to it.
Either this is a documentation error, or it's a bug with `will-navigate`.
### To Reproduce
```
const { app, BrowserWindow, BrowserView } = require('electron')
async function onReady() {
const mainWindow = new BrowserWindow();
const view = new BrowserView();
view.webContents.addListener("will-navigate", (e, url) => {
console.log("navigating to: " + url);
});
mainWindow.setBrowserView(view);
await view.webContents.loadURL("https://google.com");
view.webContents.openDevTools();
}
app.on('ready', onReady)
```
After `npm start`ing, in the devtools, run `location = "https://google.com"`. Notice that we log it.
Then run `location = "about:blank"`. Notice, that there's no log.
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