diff --git a/fancy-settings/manifest.js b/fancy-settings/manifest.js
index 9af2684..7e540f5 100755
--- a/fancy-settings/manifest.js
+++ b/fancy-settings/manifest.js
@@ -163,18 +163,11 @@ this.manifest = {
         	"type": "description",
         	"text": "<p>If this checkbox is selected, Mostly Harmless will not activate unless you click its icon.</p>"
         },
-        {
-        	"tab": "Privacy",
-        	"group": "Warning!",
-        	"name": "excludedDescription",
-        	"type": "description",
-        	"text": "<h3>Exclusions do not work yet!</h3><p><big>I am waiting on Fancy Settings to support textareas.</big></p><p>Mostly Harmless grabs data from the Reddit API every time you load a page. This takes time and bandwidth, taxes the reddit API, and sends the unencrypted URL to reddit. However, you can exclude certain domains or URL patterns from being looked up.</p>"
-        },
         {
     		"tab": "Privacy",
     		"group": "Excluded Domains",
     		"name": "excludedDomains",
-    		"type": "text",
+    		"type": "textarea",
     		"label": "Excluded domains:",
     		"text": "secure.ingdirect.com\nchaseonline.chase.com\nonline.wellsfargo.com"
         },
@@ -189,7 +182,7 @@ this.manifest = {
         	"tab": "Privacy",
         	"group": "Excluded Regex",
         	"name": "excludedRegex",
-        	"type": "text",
+        	"type": "textarea",
         	"label": "Excluded regex matches",
         	"text": "chrome:\/\/.*\nhttps?:\/\/www\.google\.com\/search.*\nhttps?:\/\/search\.yahoo\.com\/search.*\nhttps?:\/\/www\.bing\.com\/search.*"
         },
@@ -198,7 +191,7 @@ this.manifest = {
         	"group": "Excluded Regex",
         	"name": "excludedRegexDescription",
         	"type": "description",
-        	"text": "<p>Put regular expressions, one per line, in the above text box. Please do not use the <code>\\n</code> character, because there should be no newlines in a URL. Any page that matches the listed regular expressions will <strong>not</strong> activate Mostly Harmless."
+        	"text": "<p>Put regular expressions, one per line, in the above text box. Any page that matches the listed regular expressions will <strong>not</strong> activate Mostly Harmless."
         }
     ]
 };
diff --git a/js/common.js b/js/common.js
index 248d66a..9324f61 100644
--- a/js/common.js
+++ b/js/common.js
@@ -8,7 +8,9 @@ settings = new Store('settings', {
 	'shamelessPlug': false,
 	'waitForClick': false,
 	'checkMail': true,
-	'mailInterval': 1
+	'mailInterval': 1,
+	'excludedDomains': 'secure.ingdirect.com\nchaseonline.chase.com\nonline.wellsfargo.com',
+	'excludedRegex': 'chrome://.*\nchrome-extension://.*\nview-source://.*\nftp://.*\nhttps?://www\.google\.com/search.*\nhttps?://search\.yahoo\.com/search.*\nhttps?://www\.bing\.com/search.*\nhttps?://www.reddit.com/(?:r/(?:\w|\+)+/?)?(?:$|\?count)'
 });
 cache = new Store('cache');
 
@@ -701,9 +703,7 @@ RedditAPI.prototype.submitComment = function (e) {
 		textarea.onkeyup = function () {return true;};
 		url = document.getElementById(fullName).parentNode.getAttribute('data-url');
 		oldCache = cache.get(url);
-		console.log(oldCache);
 		oldCache.posts[fullName].savedCommentText = '';
-		console.log(oldCache);
 		cache.set(url, oldCache);
 	}
 	
@@ -755,10 +755,25 @@ function Background() {
  */
 Background.prototype.prepareBrowserAction = function (tabId, info, tab) {
 	if (info.status === 'loading') {
-		if (settings.get('waitForClick') === false) {
+		var excludedRegex, match;
+		
+		excludedRegex = settings.get('excludedRegex').split('\n');
+		excludedDomains = settings.get('excludedDomains').split('\n');
+		match = false;
+		
+		for (var i = 0; i < excludedRegex.length; i++) {
+			if (tab.url.match(new RegExp(excludedRegex[i], "i")) !== null) {
+				match = true;
+			}
+		}
+		
+		if (utils.parseURL(tab.url).host in utils.objConvert(excludedDomains)) {
+			match = true;
+		}
+		
+		if (settings.get('waitForClick') === false && match === false) {
 			if (cache.get(tab.url) === undefined || cache.get(tab.url).cacheDate - utils.epoch() < -60  * settings.get('cacheTime')) {
 				console.log(chrome.i18n.getMessage('loading_api'));
-				console.log(utils.parseURL(tab.url));
 				reddit.getInfo(tab.url, tabId);
 			} else {
 				console.log(chrome.i18n.getMessage('loading_cache'));
@@ -787,7 +802,6 @@ Background.prototype.watchMail = function () {
 		mailInterval = (settings.get('mailInterval') === 0) ? 1000 * 30 : settings.get('mailInterval') * 1000 * 60;
 		
 		if (hasMail === true) {
-			console.log('Orangered! I need to show a notification...');
 			notification = webkitNotifications.createNotification(
 				'/pix/mail.png',  // icon url - can be relative
 				chrome.i18n.getMessage('orangered_received'),  // notification title