A couple of extra general points about NS updates/versions that may help those who are lost in the Mozilla Addons maze:
Firstly:
AMO (addons.mozilla.org) is, as can be imagined, one of the most trafficked sites around, so a failure of an extension download from time to time is not unusual, especially a NS download; there are millions hammering it when the US wakes up these days. Most of the time, returning after an hour or two will find everything downloading properly.
If a user can't wait for the
Latest Official via
AMO, then I can report that I've only ever found
http://noscript.net/getit out to lunch once. NoScript's downloads are via a secure link, just as the AMO ones are.
Secondly: There are in fact most of the time no
"experimental" development versions of NS: The
Latest Development version is, because of the way Giorgio works, a cumulative version that simply hasn't been released to
AMO, mainly for
updating usability and convenience reasons, not experimental ones. AMO has too much lag in its approval process for the speed of NS development at times, and some users (AMO included ;-)) still haven't grasped the desirability of keeping NS absolutely current.
So, the
Latest Development has extra goodness over the
AMO one every time :-) Giorgio would never knowingly release something of which the security was not absolutely the best
he can provide.
So most of the time the
Latest Development version is just as good to install as the
Stable ones, and in fact it is the
most up-to-date one that you must use if you want to report bugs or get support. Additionally, using the
Latest Development will give Giorgio very valuable data for monitoring his work, and will help to find the occasional show-stopper for a hard-working developer - - before the rest of the AMO community downloads it and rushes here to find a fix! What could be a better way to contribute to a free as in beer application?
EDIT: once to fix linkification and to strike out unnecessary phrase :-)
A couple of extra general points about NS updates/versions that may help those who are lost in the Mozilla Addons maze:
Firstly:
[i]AMO [/i](addons.mozilla.org) is, as can be imagined, one of the most trafficked sites around, so a failure of an extension download from time to time is not unusual, especially a NS download; there are millions hammering it when the US wakes up these days. Most of the time, returning after an hour or two will find everything downloading properly.
If a user can't wait for the [i]Latest Official[/i] via [i]AMO[/i], then I can report that I've only ever found [url]http://noscript.net/getit[/url] out to lunch once. NoScript's downloads are via a secure link, just as the AMO ones are.
Secondly: There are in fact most of the time no [i]"experimental"[/i] development versions of NS: The [i]Latest Development[/i] version is, because of the way Giorgio works, a cumulative version that simply hasn't been released to [i]AMO[/i], mainly for [i]updating[/i] usability and convenience reasons, not experimental ones. AMO has too much lag in its approval process for the speed of NS development at times, and some users (AMO included ;-)) still haven't grasped the desirability of keeping NS absolutely current.
So, the [i]Latest Development[/i] has extra goodness over the [i]AMO[/i] one every time :-) Giorgio would never knowingly release something of which the security was not absolutely the best [s]he can provide[/s].
So most of the time the[i] Latest Development[/i] version is just as good to install as the [i]Stable[/i] ones, and in fact it is the [i]most up-to-date [/i]one that you must use if you want to report bugs or get support. Additionally, using the [i]Latest Development[/i] will give Giorgio very valuable data for monitoring his work, and will help to find the occasional show-stopper for a hard-working developer - - before the rest of the AMO community downloads it and rushes here to find a fix! What could be a better way to contribute to a free as in beer application?
EDIT: once to fix linkification and to strike out unnecessary phrase :-)