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 ==Firefox Development==
+* Marco Bonardo refactored about:home to avoid startup issues and lead the way to removing its use of localStorage ({{bug|615785}}, {{bug|749477}})
+* Bellindira Castillo landed initial telemetry probes for tab switching speed: {{bug|753127}}
+* Jared Wein landed perf improvements to the URL bar styling code ({{bug|781588}}). See also [http://msujaws.wordpress.com/2012/09/22/firefox-performancesnappy-work-week-warsaw-edition/ his blog post] about the snappy work week
+* Mark Hammond, Jared Wein, Felipe Gomes and Shane Caraveo landed [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?type0-1-0=changedto;field0-1-0=resolution;field0-0-0=resolution;resolution=FIXED;value0-1-0=FIXED;type0-0-0=changedafter;value0-0-0=-21d;component=SocialAPI a whole bunch of social fixes]
+* Matt N. did a great job writing hotfixes to warn 10.5 users and fix update bustage in Firefox 15 ({{bug|774509}}, {{bug|790096}})
+* Brian Bondy is hard at work getting Firefox ready for the Windows 8 release (Firefox 16 is the target there)
+* Tim Taubert is making progress on landing new tab page preloading, which should help new tab responsiveness
+* Tim Taubert landed lightweight themes image cropping bug, which should help address some slow startups caused by those
 ==Firefox Developer Tools==