ok, so, as per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash 
i added the following repositories:
deb http://ddebs.ubuntu.com intrepid main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://ddebs.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://ddebs.ubuntu.com intrepid-security main restricted universe 
multiverse

then, as per 
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs#head-c576e78d92cb3c959c271158b6ace98be835de83
i installed the following packages:
sudo apt-get install firefox-3.0-dbgsym \
     xulrunner-1.9-dbgsym \
     libgtk2.0-0-dbg \
     libnss3-1d-dbgsym \
     libnspr4-0d-dbg \
     libpango1.0-0-dbg \
     libcairo2-dbg \
     libc6-dbg

i quit firefox, then ran 
gdb /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.4/firefox 2>&1 | tee /tmp/gdb-firefox.txt

however, this produced the following output:
GNU gdb 6.8-debian
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(gdb)

what am I doing wrong? did i miss some dbg package or something? why are
the debugging symbols not found?

Please advise.

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