Here’s the current situation - just in case it isn’t entirely clear from the item below. Windows Live Local currently has an issue for some people who are using Firefox on Linux. Steve Lombardi and Stephen Stchur of Microsoft confirm that this combination is absolutely supposed to work (it’s something they’ve put considerable effort into) and believe that there may be a problem with their browser sniffing code. They’re aiming to get a fix in the next release of Live Local - in around a week.

In the meantime you can work around the problem by

1. Downloading User Agent Switcher for Firefox
2. Importing User Agent Switcher options from this file
3. Instructing Firefox to fake Firefox 1.5 (Windows XP)

Thanks to Steve and Stephen for getting on the case so promptly and to everyone who reported results.

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