I installed FF3 on another PC - everything working, so it looks like my installation is borked even though everything else looks fine.

No updates outstanding and with all extensions removed it still failed.

Re-installed FF3 and I could view maps.live.com again but after a few views it failed again.

Un-installed FF3 and re-installed and everything appears to be working again.





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Well, I did look at this thread yesterday and I tried the pages in IE7.  That was the first time ever I'd seen a live map in IE.  They'd never worked before.

So in general it seems to be very flaky.  Shame really, i think I prefer it to Google maps.

Thanks for that, all very strange...

I've just disabled all my FF add-ons in case one of them was messing things up but I still can't view the MS Maps page.

Clicking 'Help>About' shows my FF installation to be:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 - which looks the same as yours.

When I get a moment I'll try installing FF3 on a new PC and see what happens.



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Works fine in FF3 for me. 
Although your own page exhibits some strange behaviour when you try dragging the map around.  No such problem on maps.live.com though.

I'm happy with IE7 for my main browser, but also use FF3 to see how things work.

I've just found that there seem to be some bugs with Microsoft's Virtual Earth for visitors using FF3. Depending on the VE version in use some map 'mashups' work but some completely fail.

Thinking it was down to the website's mashup code I thought I would check maps.live.com with FF3 to see if that works and was surprised to find that it doesn't!

MS redirects the visitor to a 'browsernotsupported' page which only displays this message:

"To use this feature, open Live Search in Windows Internet Explorer version 6 or 7.
For more information, and to download the latest version, visit the Microsoft Internet Explorer website  (http:// www.microsoft.com /windows/ie/downloads/default.mspx)."

Not very friendly or professional! I'm not sure if the problem is with FF or MS or a bit of both.

Searching around I can see some posts about FF3/VE problems but not too much helpful stuff. Searching for the exact MS phrase above doesn't return many results either which surprised me.

I thought I would post here to see if anyone stumbles across it and can add some useful comments.

My Freeola hosted Longitude and Latitude locator page (best not to use FF3 which ignores most of my cobbled up code!).