I noticed that Netscape seemed to be crashing on pages with Java applets. I seem to remember this being an issue awhile back, and the solution was to make sure /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi (without the :unscaled) was in the font path. I checked my font path now, and sure enough, that entry wasn't in the list, just the unscaled version. I tried to add it myself by running: /usr/sbin/chkfontpath --add /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi but it said: chkfontpath: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi already in list This seems like a bug in chkfontpath to me; if, on the other hand, having the font directory without the :unscaled should no longer be necessary, then the problem must be somewhere else (perhaps in xfs).
this was due to a bad default xfs config file. modified in latest XFree86 3.3.6-15 to work well with new chkfontpath.