Web page problem

[Gene Heskett]

Greetings;

I have setup a softlink from /var/www/html/gene/linkname
That points to another directory here, owned by a different user.  All that has 
been chown'ed to apache:apache as I just noted some of it was owned by root.

I can goto that page with FF3 and display the contents as a file listing just 
fine.

I cannot actually view, from a web browser, any of the text files there 
displayed, or start a download of any of the compressed files that may be 
there.

Just for grins I fired up FF-2.0.0.14, and it works fine.  Is there some option 
I need to enable in FF3?