Why won't windows re-size predictably?

Why is clicking the green re-size button such a crap shoot in OS-X? Sometimes the window doesn't change size at all (e.g., in iPhoto). Sometimes it gets bigger than necessary to see the contents of the page being viewed (e.g. in Safari). Sometimes it gets ridiculously small! The other day the green button sent my Firefox window into a rectangle about 2 inches wide by 1 inch tall! On a perfectly normal web page! This kind of thing happens in all kindas of applications.
Even Windows is capable of a mostly predictable behavior when you click on the re-size buton! How hard can it be to make one click send an OS-X window to full screen and the next click to make it about half that size? It would be better if it toggled between just big enough to remove the scroll bar(s) and something about half that size. But almost any predicable behavior would be better than what we get now.
Am I missing something? For the life of me I can't understand why other Mac users don't complain about this. Why doesn't this come up in the otherwise highly detailed and nit-picking reviews of OS-X that we get from the (excellent) likes of Siracusa?

I'm taking gumsie's advice and will submit feedback to Apple. I think this is as close to an "answer" as we're going to get on this subject at this time. I will suggest increasing the predictibility and usefulness of the zoom button in the manner I described in my last post. I actually did provide feedback on this issue in 2004 but, obviously, it didn't convince.

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