diff --git a/src/main/java/com/google/javascript/clutz/Options.java b/src/main/java/com/google/javascript/clutz/Options.java
index 7903bef9..a69a7e0c 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/google/javascript/clutz/Options.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/google/javascript/clutz/Options.java
@@ -4,10 +4,12 @@
 import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 
 import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList;
+import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
 import com.google.common.collect.Sets;
 import com.google.common.io.Files;
 import com.google.javascript.jscomp.*;
 import com.google.javascript.jscomp.CompilerOptions.LanguageMode;
+import com.google.javascript.jscomp.deps.ModuleLoader;
 import com.google.javascript.jscomp.parsing.Config;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
@@ -163,6 +165,13 @@ public int parseArguments(Parameters params) throws CmdLineException {
   )
   private CompilerOptions.TracerMode tracerMode = CompilerOptions.TracerMode.OFF;
 
+  @Option(
+    name = "--browserResolverStrippedPrefixes",
+    usage = "A list of prefixes for absolute ES6 module paths, that would be replaced by '/'",
+    handler = StringArrayOptionHandler.class
+  )
+  List<String> browserResolverStrippedPrefixes = new ArrayList<>();
+
   @Argument
   @Option(name = "--", handler = StopOptionHandler.class)
   List<String> arguments = new ArrayList<>();
@@ -208,6 +217,14 @@ public CompilerOptions getCompilerOptions() {
     // Always parse and analyze the latest language features closure supports.
     options.setLanguage(LanguageMode.ECMASCRIPT_NEXT);
     options.setLanguageOut(LanguageMode.ECMASCRIPT5);
+
+    options.setModuleResolutionMode(ModuleLoader.ResolutionMode.BROWSER_WITH_TRANSFORMED_PREFIXES);
+    ImmutableMap.Builder builder = ImmutableMap.builder();
+    for (String str : browserResolverStrippedPrefixes) {
+      builder.put(str, "/");
+    }
+    options.setBrowserResolverPrefixReplacements(builder.build());
+
     if (closureEnv != null) {
       options.setEnvironment(closureEnv);
     }
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/google/javascript/clutz/ProgramSubject.java b/src/test/java/com/google/javascript/clutz/ProgramSubject.java
index 981c685c..c88a3b4f 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/google/javascript/clutz/ProgramSubject.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/google/javascript/clutz/ProgramSubject.java
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.PrintStream;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.LinkedHashSet;
 import java.util.List;
@@ -124,6 +125,7 @@ private String[] parse() throws AssertionError {
       opts.partialInput = true;
     }
     opts.collidingProvides = ImmutableSet.of("colliding_provide.aliased");
+    opts.browserResolverStrippedPrefixes = Arrays.asList("abs_strip_for_testing");
 
     List<SourceFile> sourceFiles = new ArrayList<>();
 
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/google/javascript/clutz/partial/es6_module.d.ts b/src/test/java/com/google/javascript/clutz/partial/es6_module.d.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/google/javascript/clutz/partial/es6_module.js b/src/test/java/com/google/javascript/clutz/partial/es6_module.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..018b7641
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/java/com/google/javascript/clutz/partial/es6_module.js
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+import * as rel from './rel/module/name';
+import * as rel2 from '/abs/module/name';
+//!! abs_strip_for_testing is special cased in the test harness.
+import * as abs from 'abs_strip_for_testing/module/name';
+
+export let x = rel.x + abs.x + rel2.x;
+
+//!! The emit of this file is intentionally empty.
+//!! So far clutz doesn't support es6 modules properly, but the test
+//!! makes sure that it doesn't reject them either.