diff --git a/lib/renderer/window-setup.js b/lib/renderer/window-setup.js
index f4ab44adb5bce..3da16bad7d407 100644
--- a/lib/renderer/window-setup.js
+++ b/lib/renderer/window-setup.js
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 // - document.hidden
 // - document.visibilityState
 
-const { defineProperty } = Object
+const { defineProperty, defineProperties } = Object
 
 // Helper function to resolve relative url.
 const a = window.top.document.createElement('a')
@@ -54,12 +54,61 @@ const removeProxy = (guestId) => {
   delete windowProxies[guestId]
 }
 
+function LocationProxy (ipcRenderer, guestId) {
+  const getGuestURL = function () {
+    const urlString = ipcRenderer.sendSync('ELECTRON_GUEST_WINDOW_MANAGER_WEB_CONTENTS_METHOD_SYNC', guestId, 'getURL')
+    try {
+      return new URL(urlString)
+    } catch (e) {
+      console.error('LocationProxy: failed to parse string', urlString, e)
+    }
+
+    return null
+  }
+
+  const propertyProxyFor = function (property) {
+    return {
+      get: function () {
+        const guestURL = getGuestURL()
+        const value = guestURL ? guestURL[property] : ''
+        return value === undefined ? '' : value
+      },
+      set: function (newVal) {
+        const guestURL = getGuestURL()
+        if (guestURL) {
+          guestURL[property] = newVal
+          return ipcRenderer.sendSync(
+            'ELECTRON_GUEST_WINDOW_MANAGER_WEB_CONTENTS_METHOD_SYNC',
+            guestId, 'loadURL', guestURL.toString())
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  defineProperties(this, {
+    hash: propertyProxyFor('hash'),
+    href: propertyProxyFor('href'),
+    host: propertyProxyFor('host'),
+    hostname: propertyProxyFor('hostname'),
+    origin: propertyProxyFor('origin'),
+    pathname: propertyProxyFor('pathname'),
+    port: propertyProxyFor('port'),
+    protocol: propertyProxyFor('protocol'),
+    search: propertyProxyFor('search')
+  })
+
+  this.toString = function () {
+    return this.href
+  }
+}
+
 function BrowserWindowProxy (ipcRenderer, guestId) {
   this.closed = false
 
+  const location = new LocationProxy(ipcRenderer, guestId)
   defineProperty(this, 'location', {
     get: function () {
-      return ipcRenderer.sendSync('ELECTRON_GUEST_WINDOW_MANAGER_WEB_CONTENTS_METHOD_SYNC', guestId, 'getURL')
+      return location
     },
     set: function (url) {
       url = resolveURL(url)
diff --git a/spec/api-browser-window-spec.js b/spec/api-browser-window-spec.js
index 84d4abc85825c..e816a0c9e70a6 100644
--- a/spec/api-browser-window-spec.js
+++ b/spec/api-browser-window-spec.js
@@ -3480,7 +3480,7 @@ describe('BrowserWindow module', () => {
       iw.loadURL('about:blank')
       iw.webContents.executeJavaScript(`
         const opened = window.open()
-        openedLocation = opened.location
+        openedLocation = opened.location.href
         opened.close()
         window.postMessage({openedLocation}, '*')
       `)
diff --git a/spec/chromium-spec.js b/spec/chromium-spec.js
index 439475506a3a8..939b9c0fa8f40 100644
--- a/spec/chromium-spec.js
+++ b/spec/chromium-spec.js
@@ -515,7 +515,7 @@ describe('chromium feature', () => {
       }
       app.once('browser-window-created', (event, window) => {
         window.webContents.once('did-finish-load', () => {
-          assert.strictEqual(b.location, targetURL)
+          assert.strictEqual(b.location.href, targetURL)
           b.close()
           done()
         })
@@ -545,14 +545,14 @@ describe('chromium feature', () => {
         webContents.once('did-finish-load', () => {
           const { location } = b
           b.close()
-          assert.strictEqual(location, 'about:blank')
+          assert.strictEqual(location.href, 'about:blank')
 
           let c = null
           app.once('browser-window-created', (event, { webContents }) => {
             webContents.once('did-finish-load', () => {
               const { location } = c
               c.close()
-              assert.strictEqual(location, 'about:blank')
+              assert.strictEqual(location.href, 'about:blank')
               done()
             })
           })
@@ -645,7 +645,7 @@ describe('chromium feature', () => {
 
     it('does nothing when origin of current window does not match opener', (done) => {
       listener = (event) => {
-        assert.strictEqual(event.data, null)
+        assert.strictEqual(event.data, '')
         done()
       }
       window.addEventListener('message', listener)
@@ -694,7 +694,7 @@ describe('chromium feature', () => {
     it('does nothing when origin of webview src URL does not match opener', (done) => {
       webview = new WebView()
       webview.addEventListener('console-message', (e) => {
-        assert.strictEqual(e.message, 'null')
+        assert.strictEqual(e.message, '')
         done()
       })
       webview.setAttribute('allowpopups', 'on')
diff --git a/spec/fixtures/pages/window-opener-location.html b/spec/fixtures/pages/window-opener-location.html
index c1594e667de30..d386f5cc5d9eb 100644
--- a/spec/fixtures/pages/window-opener-location.html
+++ b/spec/fixtures/pages/window-opener-location.html
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <html>
 <body>
 <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
-  window.opener.postMessage(window.opener.location, '*')
+  window.opener.postMessage(window.opener.location.href, '*')
 </script>
 </body>
 </html>