Firefox 3 - AwesomeBar hacks II

When you type an URL in FF3, it displays all the history/bookmarks URLs which matches any part of the typed pattern. This was not the case with Firefox 2, where it would show only the results matching the beginning of the URL. In this latest version, you can have both the features. You just type '//' and then the the URL to match only the beginning.
This new feature to match any pattern comes very handy when you are typing a blog or a flickr URL where you just have to type the profile/nick name. This is an awesome feature and am just loving it.

Firefox 3 - AwesomeBar hacks

Firefox 3 is awesome with lot of new features added to it, but its AwesomeBar has been annoying me with autofill of bookmarks. With thousands bookmarked, I had to find a way to get back the old bar or at least to disable the bookmarks autofill. When searching for that, I came across some really good tweaks which made my life easy with this new version of Firefox.

No of pages to show:

The number of results it should show in the awesome bar can be controlled. In about:config, browser.urlbar.maxRichResults sets the value for number of results. When it is set to 0, it will show nothing.

(To get into about:config page, just type about:config in the url and hit enter)

Hide unvisited :

Installing this add-on, hides a bookmark that you have not visited since clearing or deleting history.

Edit middle:

Installing this add-on, shows the result even when editing the middle of URL bar. For example, if you have entered gogle.com and editing in the middle of 'g' and 'o' shows up the result.

Hidden places

This add-on stops specified URLs being added to the AwesomeBar. Enter a comma separated list of domains that you don't want to be added to places:
google.co.uk,digg.com,microsoft.com

Web pages from those domains will then be removed from places (history) without having to turn off the history completely.
Note: This will not stop bookmarked items showing up if they belong to the same domain.

Enter Selects:

This add-on allows you to press enter in the AwesomeBar to select the first result (without pressing down).

Old bar:

If you don't want both the title and the url to be shown in the result, this add-on reverts back to the firefox 2 style with only urls.

Distrust ( Private browsing):

Hide surfing trails that the browser leaves behind.Once turned on, this extension monitors FireFox for its activities. Once turned off, Distrust will remove history items cache and cookies that were used during the distrust session.

Hide the Bookmarks icon:

Open your userChrome.css file located in your profile folder. Add this line to the end of the file: #star-button {display: none !important;}

Hide the web feed icon:
Open your userChrome.css file located in your profile folder. Add this line to the file:
#feed-button[feeds] { display: none !important; }

P.S: I got the above two tweaks from here. This page has got more tweaks which I haven't tested yet.

P.P.S: This page has got Tabbed browsing tweaks.