I found I could improve the situation a little with CSS dedicated to Webkit (Safari, Chrome). However, I had to set a fixed width and height on the field because the font change will resize the field.
@media screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio:0){ /* START WEBKIT */
INPUT[type="password"]{
font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;
height:28px;
font-size:19px;
width:223px;
padding:5px;
}
} /* END WEBKIT */