Comment 2 for bug 243670

shirish@Mugglewille:~$ aptitude show firefox
Package: firefox
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 3.0+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
Priority: optional
Section: web
Maintainer: Alexander Sack <email address hidden>
Uncompressed Size: 123k
Depends: firefox-3.0
Description: meta package for the popular mozilla web browser
 Firefox 3 is the next major release of the standalone Mozilla browser; it is
 written in the XUL language and designed to be lightweight and cross-platform.

 This browser was previously known as Firefox 2, Firebird and Phoenix.

 This is a meta package that will point to the latest firefox package in ubuntu.
 Don't remove this if you want to receive automatic major version upgrades for
 this package in future.