diff --git a/components/script/dom/htmlanchorelement.rs b/components/script/dom/htmlanchorelement.rs
index 53478dc6aca..b47d799c8ae 100644
--- a/components/script/dom/htmlanchorelement.rs
+++ b/components/script/dom/htmlanchorelement.rs
@@ -178,7 +178,10 @@ fn follow_hyperlink(subject: &Element, hyperlink_suffix: Option<DOMString>) {
 
     // Step 4-5.
     let document = document_from_node(subject);
-    let url = UrlParser::new().base_url(&document.url()).parse(&href).unwrap();
+    let url = match UrlParser::new().base_url(&document.url()).parse(&href) {
+        Ok(url) => url,
+        Err(_) => return,
+    };
 
     // Step 7.
     debug!("following hyperlink to {}", url.serialize());
diff --git a/tests/wpt/mozilla/meta/mozilla/follow-hyperlink.html.ini b/tests/wpt/mozilla/meta/mozilla/follow-hyperlink.html.ini
deleted file mode 100644
index 8e6e2200a5f..00000000000
--- a/tests/wpt/mozilla/meta/mozilla/follow-hyperlink.html.ini
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-[follow-hyperlink.html]
-  type: testharness
-  expected: CRASH