Don't mess with omnibox selection on update when the omnibox doesn't have focus.

chrome/browser/ui/views/omnibox/omnibox_view_views.cc

 // Copyright (c) 2012 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/ui/views/omnibox/omnibox_view_views.h"
 
 #include "base/command_line.h"
 #include "base/logging.h"
 #include "base/strings/string_util.h"
 #include "base/strings/utf_string_conversions.h"
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     // Tweak: if the user had all the text selected, select all the new text.
     // This makes one particular case better: the user clicks in the box to
     // change it right before the permanent URL is changed.  Since the new URL
     // is still fully selected, the user's typing will replace the edit contents
     // as they'd intended.
     const ui::Range range(GetSelectedRange());
     const bool was_select_all = (range.length() == text().length());
 
     RevertAll();
 
-    if (was_select_all)
+    // Only select all when we have focus.  If we don't have focus, selecting
+    // all is unnecessary since the selection will change on regaining focus,
+    // and can in fact cause artifacts, e.g. if the user is on the NTP and
+    // clicks a link to navigate, causing |was_select_all| to be vacuously true
+    // for the empty omnibox, and we then select all here, leading to the
+    // trailing portion of a long URL being scrolled into view.  We could try
+    // and address cases like this, but it seems better to just not muck with
+    // things when the omnibox isn't focused to begin with.
+    if (was_select_all && model()->has_focus())
       SelectAll(range.is_reversed());
   } else if (changed_security_level) {
     EmphasizeURLComponents();
   }
 }
 
 string16 OmniboxViewViews::GetText() const {
   // TODO(oshima): IME support
   return text();
 }
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   const string16 text(GetClipboardText());
   if (!text.empty()) {
     // Record this paste, so we can do different behavior.
     model()->on_paste();
     // Force a Paste operation to trigger the text_changed code in
     // OnAfterPossibleChange(), even if identical contents are pasted.
     text_before_change_.clear();
     InsertOrReplaceText(text);
   }
 }