this was fixed in a recent upload ...

firefox-3.0 (3.0~b3+nobinonly-0ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * Firefox 3 Beta 3 release (FIREFOX_3_0b3_RELEASE)
  [ Alexander Sack ]
  * use default upstream gcc tweaks for improved performance - especially of
    the javascript engine
    - update debian/rules
  * add gtk based profile migrator dialog, build it during |pre-build| and clean
    it in |clean| target of debian/rules; finally, install the binary in firefox
    pkglibdir.
    - add debian/migrator/main.c
    - update debian/rules
  * drop version suffix from MOZ_APP and application.ini (going back to
    upstreams plain |firefox|) and drop patches accordingly
    - drop debian/patches/firefox-fsh
    - drop debian/patches/firefox-profilename
    - update debian/patches/series
  * install firefox binary instead of firefox-3.0 (after MOZ_APP_NAME
    tweakage was dropped in on of the previous commits
    - update debian/firefox-3.0.install
  * reuse firefox.sh.in script to determine on whether the user was a beta
    user and if thats the case ask the user (by running the profile migrator
    added above) which profile to use in future
    - update debian/firefox.sh.in
  * fix DEBIAN_FF3_DIR, which diverged from install dir after dropping
    special application name and profile dir tweaks
    - update debian/rules
  * drop development version disclaimer from package description and improve
    the package description by stripping technical details and referrals to
    other browser applications that are less known than firefox and thus don't
    provide any valuable info to normal users.
    - update debian/control
  * bump build dependency for xulrunner-1.9-dev to >= 1.9~b3
    - update debian/control
  * bump bin dependency on xulrunner-1.9 and on xulrunner-1.9-gnome-support
    to >= 1.9~b3
    - update debian/control
  * introduce (empty) firefox meta package that automatically upgrades users
    to latest major releases of firefox; firefox 2 will be reuploaded as
    firefox-2 and then be demoted to universe
    - update debian/control
  * make firefox-3.0 conflict/replace old firefox 2 package to force upgrade
    - update debian/control
  * remove "Development Version" disclaimer from package short descriptions
    - update debian/control
  * introduce empty meta packages for firefox, firefox-dom-inspector,
    firefox-gnome-support and firefox-dev to provide a seamingless upgrade path
    from previous firefox versions. Add Conficts/Replaces accordingly and make
    firefox-3.0 Conflicts/Replaces/Provides firefox-libthai which is now fully
    integrated in the core as pango line breaking feature is used.
    - update debian/control
  * provide link /usr/bin/firefox => /usr/bin/firefox-4.0
    - add debian/firefox-3.0.links

  [ Fabien Tassin ]
  * Add support for mozilla-devscripts and clean-up rules file accordingly
    - update debian/rules
  * Clean-up rules file to make more use of $(EXTRA_SYSTEM_CONFIGURE_FLAGS)
    - update debian/rules
  * Update diverged patch:
    - update debian/patches/ftbfs-with-branding-dir
  * Add #DEBHELPER# token to prerm script
    - update debian/firefox-3.0.prerm
  * Replace deprecated ${Source-Version} by ${binary:Version}
    - update debian/control
  * Bump requirement for system cairo to >= 1.5.8 as we now need
    the newly added cairo_path_extents()
    - update debian/rules
  * Add a menu file
    - add debian/firefox-3.0.menu
  * Include mozilla-devscripts file using -include so ifneq could be omitted
    - update debian/rules
  * Improve migration script to take care of all previously used profile
    directories (during alpha and beta phases)
    - update debian/firefox.sh.in

 -- Alexander Sack < <email address hidden>>   Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:55:10 +0100