Fixes T10396. Seems like this has been around for a while (references from 2011):
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4002312/chrome-resets-the-textarea-scroll-bar-scrolltop-when-focus-is-called
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=75072
Commenting out this focus() seemed to fix the issue locally, at the cost of not focusing.
Saving, focusing, then restoring seems to produce the correct behavior everywhere.