diff --git a/lib/common/events.ts b/lib/common/events.ts
index b2e7074f6..4d404b427 100644
--- a/lib/common/events.ts
+++ b/lib/common/events.ts
@@ -18,6 +18,23 @@ interface EventTaskData extends TaskData {
   readonly useG?: boolean;
 }
 
+let passiveSupported = false;
+
+if (typeof window !== 'undefined') {
+  try {
+    const options = Object.defineProperty({}, 'passive', {
+      get: function() {
+        passiveSupported = true;
+      }
+    });
+
+    window.addEventListener('test', options, options);
+    window.removeEventListener('test', options, options);
+  } catch (err) {
+    passiveSupported = false;
+  }
+}
+
 // an identifier to tell ZoneTask do not create a new invoke closure
 const OPTIMIZED_ZONE_EVENT_TASK_DATA: EventTaskData = {
   useG: true
@@ -50,6 +67,8 @@ export interface PatchEventTargetOptions {
   rt?: boolean;
   // event compare handler
   diff?: (task: any, delegate: any) => boolean;
+  // support passive or not
+  supportPassive?: boolean;
 }
 
 export function patchEventTarget(
@@ -212,12 +231,25 @@ export function patchEventTarget(
           proto[patchOptions.prepend];
     }
 
-    const customScheduleGlobal = function() {
+    function checkIsPassive(task: Task) {
+      if (!passiveSupported && typeof taskData.options !== 'boolean' &&
+          typeof taskData.options !== 'undefined' && taskData.options !== null) {
+        // options is a non-null non-undefined object
+        // passive is not supported
+        // don't pass options as object
+        // just pass capture as a boolean
+        (task as any).options = !!taskData.options.capture;
+        taskData.options = (task as any).options;
+      }
+    }
+
+    const customScheduleGlobal = function(task: Task) {
       // if there is already a task for the eventName + capture,
       // just return, because we use the shared globalZoneAwareCallback here.
       if (taskData.isExisting) {
         return;
       }
+      checkIsPassive(task);
       return nativeAddEventListener.call(
           taskData.target, taskData.eventName,
           taskData.capture ? globalZoneAwareCaptureCallback : globalZoneAwareCallback,
@@ -265,6 +297,7 @@ export function patchEventTarget(
     };
 
     const customScheduleNonGlobal = function(task: Task) {
+      checkIsPassive(task);
       return nativeAddEventListener.call(
           taskData.target, taskData.eventName, task.invoke, taskData.options);
     };
@@ -421,7 +454,11 @@ export function patchEventTarget(
         if (once) {
           options.once = true;
         }
-        task.options = options;
+        if (!(!passiveSupported && typeof task.options === 'boolean')) {
+          // if not support passive, and we pass an option object
+          // to addEventListener, we should save the options to task
+          task.options = options;
+        }
         task.target = target;
         task.capture = capture;
         task.eventName = eventName;
diff --git a/test/browser/browser.spec.ts b/test/browser/browser.spec.ts
index 6afa1cfe4..0ca232fb3 100644
--- a/test/browser/browser.spec.ts
+++ b/test/browser/browser.spec.ts
@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ try {
       supportsPassive = true;
     }
   });
-  window.addEventListener('test', null as any, opts);
-  window.removeEventListener('test', null as any, opts);
+  window.addEventListener('test', opts as any, opts);
+  window.removeEventListener('test', opts as any, opts);
 } catch (e) {
 }
 
@@ -75,6 +75,14 @@ function ieOrEdge() {
 
 (ieOrEdge as any).message = 'IE/Edge Test';
 
+class TestEventListener {
+  logs: string[] = [];
+  addEventListener(eventName: string, listener: any, options: any) {
+    this.logs.push(options);
+  }
+  removeEventListener(eventName: string, listener: any, options: any) {}
+}
+
 describe('Zone', function() {
   const rootZone = Zone.current;
   (Zone as any)[zoneSymbol('ignoreConsoleErrorUncaughtError')] = true;
@@ -996,6 +1004,46 @@ describe('Zone', function() {
            expect(logs).toEqual(['click']);
          }));
 
+      it('should change options to boolean if not support passive', () => {
+        patchEventTarget(window, [TestEventListener.prototype]);
+        const testEventListener = new TestEventListener();
+
+        const listener = function() {};
+        testEventListener.addEventListener('test', listener, {passive: true});
+        testEventListener.addEventListener('test1', listener, {once: true});
+        testEventListener.addEventListener('test2', listener, {capture: true});
+        testEventListener.addEventListener('test3', listener, {passive: false});
+        testEventListener.addEventListener('test4', listener, {once: false});
+        testEventListener.addEventListener('test5', listener, {capture: false});
+        if (!supportsPassive) {
+          expect(testEventListener.logs).toEqual([false, false, true, false, false, false]);
+        } else {
+          expect(testEventListener.logs).toEqual([
+            {passive: true}, {once: true}, {capture: true}, {passive: false}, {once: false},
+            {capture: false}
+          ]);
+        }
+      });
+
+      it('should change options to boolean if not support passive on HTMLElement', () => {
+        const logs: string[] = [];
+        const listener = (e: Event) => {
+          logs.push('clicked');
+        };
+
+        (button as any).addEventListener('click', listener, {once: true});
+        button.dispatchEvent(clickEvent);
+        expect(logs).toEqual(['clicked']);
+        button.dispatchEvent(clickEvent);
+        if (supportsPassive) {
+          expect(logs).toEqual(['clicked']);
+        } else {
+          expect(logs).toEqual(['clicked', 'clicked']);
+        }
+
+        button.removeEventListener('click', listener);
+      });
+
       it('should support addEventListener with AddEventListenerOptions passive setting',
          ifEnvSupports(supportEventListenerOptions, function() {
            const hookSpy = jasmine.createSpy('hook');