When I select and overtype text, why does it overtype more text than I actually selected?

For example, let's say the existing text reads: "one two three four five six".
Let's say I select: "two three".
And then I start typing.
I'll often find that what I'm typing is actually replacing: "two three four five".
Why is this? And how can I stop it?

It doesn't happen all the time, but I've noticed it often happens when editing a text field in an online form in Google Chrome. (I'm not running any wierd extensions; just the usual ones like add to Instapaper, etc etc.) I'm pretty sure I've seen this happen to me in Word too, but the latest instances were definetly in Chrome.
It wasn't an issue on my last Mac running Mac OS X 10.6.x. Just my new Air running Mac OS X 10.8.x.

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