It would appear that for Netscape 4.7x to work properly, among other things, there must be an exact correspondence between fonts listed in the fs catalogue and fonts actually installed. The default fs font list (in /etc/X11/fs/config) that ships with RedHat 6.2 includes /usr/share/fonts/default/Truetype in the catalogue. The default RH 6.2 workstation install doesn't install these fonts, (they don't seem to be on the CD at all) further exacerbating the 'Netscape hangs when it can't find it's fonts' problem. Easiest fix: edit the config file, remove the offending line, and restart X. Netscape 4.7x appears to be far more stable after matching installed fonts to catalogued fonts. Perhaps there are Truetype fonts out there, I've not had the time to look yet. /msh
This shouldn't be a problem; netscape doesn't even know what's in the font server's font path.