wow-you should get wget...it's a download manager with a pick up where you left off (-c) switch.

yum install wget

However, if you already have the firefox-3.0.11.tar.bz2 file on your system then skip this. Also, do everything in the terminal (except yum updates) as your user-this way firefox shouldn't bring down your pc.

[s]Where would you suggest I place the file though.

[Rodney@rodney ~]$ bunzip2 firefox-3.0.11.tar.bz2
bunzip2: Can't open input file firefox-3.0.11.tar.bz2: No such file or directory


I've tried just my desktop, and also the download file, as well as my home directory.[/s]

[Edit]I figured I should try the wget route and see if that works better for me.
[edit2]And thus I discover Strikethrough tags do not operate on this forum.


[edit 3] An I wind up back at square one with the firefox-3.0.11.tar.bz2 not being a file or directory...

UPDATE: My computer just froze up again when I was logged into my bank. Not the place where I want that to happen.

ok, RodneyPhoenix-do this:

su
[password|
updatedb
locate firefox-3.0.11.tar*

if it's on your computer it will show you where...if not then you'll need to download it again (try yum install wget as root and then exit to a regular user and cd ~ before you use it). If it's on your pc then do this:

exit

now your a regular user

mv [file location given above]/firefox-3.0.11.tar.bz2 ~
cd ~
bunzip2 firefox-3.0.11.tar.bz2
tar -xvf firefox-3.0.11.tar
cd firefox
./firefox

ok, I now have a shortcut pointing to firefox-3.0.11 but there are no plugins. It seems to be looking in ~/.mozilla and getting my bookmarks as well as my addons. Can I get it to use all the plugins (java and flash) that are on my pc?

I'm back to my laptop as, I had Firefox 3.5 working, and then all of a sudden it went Kaput on me. I'll see what that method does.

It's giving me that "no such file or directory" bs again.

Though one time I got it to give me another line of code about how blah/blah/ff-3.0.11.tar' and blah/blah/ff3.0.11.tar' are the same file.

I know the file is there, terminal confirmed where the file is, so why is it being suchj a pain about finding the file?


[Edit]
What it's doing is it's freezing up on the restart, even in safe mode.

It seems I can run firefox in Safemode every other time.

And that's only when in root.

I was hoping someone might have a suggestion.

Perhaps I should downgrade back to Fedora 10, that I at least had working well.