Yes it works (that is what I did too), but the user-agent is:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090701 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Shiretoko/3.5 GTB5

I don't care and don't mind waiting for the meta-package to point to 3.5, but maybe some do.