Erratic font sizes driving me crazy!!

I have no clue why but both Safari and Minefield (Firefox with multi-touch) can't seem to settle on how they want to present text to me...each and every website is different! Some are tiny, some are huge, some WERE tiny until they become huge! Meanwhile I'm going nuts with the pinch/zoom feature trying to get each website looking right.

Surely there has to be an easier way than this? I never had this problem on a PC; everything looked normal.

So what's going on here? Does anybody know what I'm talking about?

 

Incidentally, I should also note that even when I DO get the font size proper, I'm rarely satisfied with how they actually look. They are either razor thin when they are small, or look exaggeratedly bold when they are larger.

Is this a Mac thing?

 

If you keep your browser at 100% it will always be at the same zoom/text level (which depending on the website can be smaller or larger, just like on PCs). Websites tend to keep fonts between 8-14, with most of them in the middle range there.

BUT regular font size can not be sharp because Apple doesn't like that, they actually keep their font anti aliased, for better paragraph look (!?$#%@^). Now, MS on the other hand, has an excellent way of displaying letters on the screen: ClearType technology, which is rubbish cause it comes from MS but it works and LOOKS much much better. On my own I got used to the look of Leopard, I like it but still find it much less sharp looking than regular Windows/PC. So smart Steve better learn how to copy the wheel than just reinventing it. Instead of bashing the PCs, Apple should put those money in improving this issue. It is a huge issue, every time I place my 2500$ MBP near a $600 HP I feel like the cheaper HP looks so nice .. and guess way? It took me a while to figure it out .. haha.

Maybe there is an update/option/setting/software that will improve this, to change the whole operating system's fonts? If so, please share.. If not, my sarcasm is properly placed and Apple should receive tons of bashing (from people who own their products, like me) in order to improve things somehow. I do not know if ClearType is copyrighted for PCs only, but whatever, figure it out Steve!