You can select a "scope" (top-left cell in the popup) which will tells where the rules apply. You can set it to automatically create a temporary domain-level scope when landing on a web page (in Settings tab), and if you select this, I suggest you also select "Auto-delete temporary scopes".
Now any rules will apply only to that scope. For web sites you use regularly, just lock down these rules for that scope, and they will be remembered every time you visit that particular domain.
This is actually the preferred way to use the extension, but I did not make it the default currently.
Note though that this will work best with the upcoming v 0.9.2.0 which supports almost all net request-based ABP filters (my benchmark on github was updated yesterday for that version).
In the above setup, HTTPSB has been set to work in allow-all/block-exceptionally mode, so nothing is blocked except for what appear in the above files.
Keep in mind that HTTPSB doesn't do element hiding (I see this as a separate extension.)
Thank you for putting in the effort to make this more usable out of the box. I will be all over this once the ability to use these filter lists is easy to access.
I'm with this guy, I don't really want to spend much time filtering/selecting. If I can block 90% of the crap in seconds vs. 99.9% of the crap with several day's investment in customizing the filtering, I'll take 90% please.
Thanks for providing the "adblock-like" preset, that was just what I was looking for. Then from here, if/when I run into particularly horrific js, I can block it one-by-one.
Now any rules will apply only to that scope. For web sites you use regularly, just lock down these rules for that scope, and they will be remembered every time you visit that particular domain.
This is actually the preferred way to use the extension, but I did not make it the default currently.