Well comparing between HIPS and BB it may goes vary.
Since the power of HIPS (like StormShield and others) were hold by the experience users and pop ups were really crucial as novice users cannot provide it.
While BB (Threatfire and others) providing a possible for malicious thus even novice users may prompt to block it since everything related to be suspicious behavior by a certain application.
For me I would go for Threatfire for being a Behavior Blocker type.