Firefox Font Trouble

I can't figure out how to fix this font issue. The first screenshot below was taken on a Mac and the second was taken on Arch. It doesn't come across as well as I'd like in the screenshots, but it looks terrible. The Arch version is gigantic compared to what it's supposed to be. I've installed every font that I can think of and even tried using the cleartype and infinality packages from AUR. The font is defined in the stylesheet as: 10pt verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucida grande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif.
Here are fonts that I have installed:
extra/freetype2 2.4.2-1 [installed]
extra/gsfonts 1.0.7pre44-2 [installed]
extra/ttf-bitstream-vera 1.10-7 [installed]
extra/ttf-dejavu 2.30-2 [installed]
extra/ttf-freefont 20090104-2 [installed]
extra/ttf-ms-fonts 2.0-3 [installed]
extra/xorg-fonts-100dpi 1.0.1-3 (xorg) [installed]
extra/xorg-fonts-75dpi 1.0.1-3 (xorg) [installed]
extra/xorg-fonts-misc 1.0.1-1 [installed]
community/terminus-font 4.30-1 [installed]
community/ttf-inconsolata 20090215-2 [installed]
community/ttf-liberation 1.06.0.20100721-1 [installed]
Mac:
Arch:
Any suggestions?

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xor … ze_and_DPI
I'm not entirely certain what the DPI should be, but it seems like everything checks out according to that wiki article. That's the correct resolution, and I did their math to calculate the screen size and got a comparable 363x204. I'm guessing mine is off due to rounding errors.

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