Selenium chromedriver opens a blank page instead of url on linux

I think because Chrome version in your Linux machine is not supported.

For people using newer versions of Selenium who are dealing with this issue, I was able to do the following (similar to Abhilash's answer which is using an older version of Selenium) to resolve the blank-page issue for uncertified domains with Chrome:

ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();    
...
options.setCapability(CapabilityType.ACCEPT_INSECURE_CERTS, true);
options.setCapability(CapabilityType.ACCEPT_SSL_CERTS, true);
...
driver = new ChromeDriver(options);

(In my case, webdriver worked fine on my local machine but not on the Linux box hosting CI tools)