Take 2 at fixing anchor links opening in background tabs on linux.

chrome/browser/browser.cc

 // Copyright (c) 2006-2009 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 // found in the LICENSE file.
 
 #include "chrome/browser/browser.h"
 
 #include "app/animation.h"
 #include "app/l10n_util.h"
 #include "base/command_line.h"
 #include "base/idle_timer.h"
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   }
 
   if (disposition == NEW_POPUP) {
     BuildPopupWindow(source, new_contents, initial_pos);
   } else if (disposition == NEW_WINDOW) {
     Browser* browser = Browser::Create(profile_);
     browser->AddNewContents(source, new_contents, NEW_FOREGROUND_TAB,
                             initial_pos, user_gesture);
     browser->window()->Show();
   } else if (disposition != SUPPRESS_OPEN) {
+    // Ensure that the new TabContentsView begins at the same size as the
+    // previous TabContentsView if it existed.  Otherwise, the initial WebKit
+    // layout will be performed based on a width of 0 pixels, causing a
+    // very long, narrow, inaccurate layout.  Because some scripts on pages (as
+    // well as WebKit's anchor link location calculation) are run on the
+    // initial layout and not recalculated later, we need to ensure the first
+    // layout is performed with sane view dimensions even when we're opening a
+    // new background tab.
+    if (TabContents* old_contents = tabstrip_model_.GetSelectedTabContents()) {
+      new_contents->view()->SizeContents(
+          old_contents->view()->GetContainerSize());
+    }
     tabstrip_model_.AddTabContents(new_contents, -1, false,
                                    PageTransition::LINK,
                                    disposition == NEW_FOREGROUND_TAB);
   }
 }
 
 void Browser::ActivateContents(TabContents* contents) {
   tabstrip_model_.SelectTabContentsAt(
       tabstrip_model_.GetIndexOfTabContents(contents), false);
   window_->Activate();
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 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 // BrowserToolbarModel (private):
 
 NavigationController* Browser::BrowserToolbarModel::GetNavigationController() {
   // This |current_tab| can be NULL during the initialization of the
   // toolbar during window creation (i.e. before any tabs have been added
   // to the window).
   TabContents* current_tab = browser_->GetSelectedTabContents();
   return current_tab ? &current_tab->controller() : NULL;
 }