Q: My earlier question re Firefox

This is a very interesting answer thanks BDaqua and i'm certainly going to keep a copy of it but i'd like you to ask you something else first. I did a lot of scouting around, gave up at 1am but did read that the download ( of version 3.6.24) might need to be done again, that something might have gone wrong. This is a possibility as i did the download by dial up. It took 5 hours, should have been ok but the Leopard settings are a bit different to Tiger ( had no problem doing these thing on Tiger) and i wonder whether the computer dozed off to sleep or the phone disconnected. The file shows i have got 3.6.28 but "About Firefox "says its 3.6. 24 the Check Updates says the 3.6.28 is still to be done but i don't have the rights to do it. Something seems to be in limbo.

I have done Permissions Repair and have checked on the file" More Info " that i have rights to Read and Write but nothing works regarding the update. Firefox file says i have Custom Rights but i don't know what that is.

The accounts does say i am Admin so that account seems to be there ok , there is no other account,and surely i needed it to download Firefox in the first place? My password is always accepted. but in this case i'm not being given the opportunity to enter it.

Would it be an idea to uninstall Firefox altogether and redo it?  Thinking of having someone store it on USB via broadband and then onto my computer.Might work?  Best regards.....

Can i make the new account the same as my other one or do i need a new name and new password? 

Oops, i started doing it on this computer ( i've got 1 panther, 1 tiger and the Leopard, nearly a zoo). I'll start up the other computer later and let you know.  I mostly use the 10.4 computer cos i don't have problems. The 10.5 one is noticeably slower even tho its younger and more memory.   I assume i can delete the new account if it doesn't help?

Back again, on the Leopard this time and has been interesting dvelopments. Things seem sorted for now at least. I had downloaded the update to FF before but went through all that "haven't got the rights" stuff, i fiddled around with access rights,gave up, turned off, next morning found i now had ability to do update. I don't know what fixed it. Then didn't use computer, tired of the problems,then yesterday it flashed up that an update was waiting so i tried to download and ran into repeat of the no rights issue.

Strangely it seemed there was sometimes 2 Firefoxes, one would open with home page but other kept opening with Mozilla telling me i was running 3.6.28 and would never open with home page.Sometimes there were 2 icons, sometimes one.

The file Info told me i had 3.6.28 but About Firefox told me i had version 3.6.24.

This morning there was a question mark in the dock which said Firefox when put cursor on it, i had trashed a Firefox icon last night.   Anyway i recalled the trashed one back again and started to look at both and trashed the question mark, clicked on the remaining FF icon and it opened with my home page and all details show i have the updated version.   So i don't know. The test will be when i empty trash and see if it will dump one FF but leave the other one.

Your answers were extremely helpful as to teaching me things so i will have them printed for future reference.

On a different point it took nearly 10 minutes from clicking the link in the email to get signed in to Apple and to be able to write a reply to you, this can't be right? The 10.4 machine ( all eMacs PowerPC) does it much more quickly and yet it is slowish.

The previous owner has installed Microsoft Messenger, Entourage, Power Point, Excel amd MS Word for me, the only other addition is iPhoto which i wanted. Has the computer got too much on it? And which would be the best MS programmes to keep. I don't use them but would like a programme that can open documents that the Mac can't.

Thank you for everything and especially for your patience.