How to upgrade Firefox on Fedora

Hi, 
I'm currently running Fedora v.7 and have Firefox v.2. I'm trying to upgrade to the latest version of Firefox and having problems doing so. I tried the cmd: yum update firefox and got the results listed below: 
 
fedora 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00 
updates 100% |=========================| 2.3 kB 00:00 
Setting up Update Process 
Could not find update match for firefox 
No Packages marked for Update 
I then downloaded the latest version of Firefox from the website, but there is no .rpm file or .bz2 file which I can use to do the install. Could you please provide me with instructions on how I can do the upgrade? 
Shahab

You should first off update to Fedora 18, http://fedoraproject.org/
Fedora 7 was End of Lifed 2008-06-13, which means it hasn't received updates since then. updating will not only keep you secure, but will also come with performance and stability improvements.

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