Some people may be surprised to learn that I disagree with Noah on this
one.  I think following Debian's lead would be too disruptive in three
ways:

1. Disruptive to end users, who wouldn't understand why their browser
was renamed out from under them

2. Disruptive to Canonical, who would be forced to deal with the
increased support costs arising from #1

3. Disruptive to Canonical's relationship with Mozilla, the importance
of which should not be underestimated

Furthermore, Mark Shuttleworth has already publicly stated that
Canonical will continue shipping Mozilla-approved Firefox packages (
http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/79 ), so that narrows the
options considerably.  Given that a Mozilla-approved package will
necessarily contain non-free components, and given that Canonical plans
to continue shipping and officially supporting this package, that
narrows it down to precisely one solution.  Canonical already has a
repository for supported non-free packages; it's called "restricted."

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Some components are non-free
https://launchpad.net/bugs/83118

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