Why are my browser windows larger than my screen?

When I put Lion on my iMac, browser windows for Safari become very large and Google Chrome windows are immense.
This didn't happen on my MacBook Pro. I've looked in all kinds of preferences and I can't seem to find a way to trim down browser window size.

Hi, thank you so much for responding!
The problem isn't related to type size or resolution. It's the actual window size. It's for all windows, not just browsers. The menu bar doesn't appear--the only way to get to it is to push the cursor to the top of the screen and then I lose my place. Same for the right-hand scroll and any window-controls on the bottom--I have to go way outside the part of the screen that's displayed.
I tried both your suggestions, command-shift - just made the typeface smaller--the window navigation is still outside of the screen. And then I changed the Sys Preferences/Display as you suggest, that just made the typeface bigger and blurrier.
Any other ideas?
It's really "window size" -- but I can't find any setting that reduces the size of windows.

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chewy cabeza wrote:
Why did apple support Windows better than Mac in iCloud?
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