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Version 2.1, Windows 7 Home Premium: With the option to show blocked scripts disabled, the messages appear anyway.

It works for me.
Does it for you on a clean [url=http://kb..org/Profile]profile[/url]?
If it does, please try [url=http://kb..org/Standard_diagnostic_-_Firefox#Extension_issues]Standard Diagnostic[/url] because it might be a conflict.

This is with a brand-new profile; standard diagnostics don't fix it.

Curious:

1. I tried again disabling all other extensions, which had the same effect as before, namely none.

2. I then reverted to NoScript 2.0.9.9; to my surprise, the problem is still there. Quite puzzling: Apparently something, somewhere, is overriding the option, but what that might be is totally unknown to me.

And, finally: My third new profile in three days fixed the problem.

1. First profile was ruined by the installation of a small extension that is not compatible with Firefox 4.0; over the years, until now, I've found that doing this either causes no problems or that removing the extension remedies any difficulties. Alas, that was not true this time.

2. I don't know why NoScript would not work with profile #2. I tried the usual trick of closing FF, renaming prefs.js, then restarting and letting FF create a new file. As with the extension problem in profile #1, this failed to work. The problem this created was another one I'd never seen before: While my Bookmarks Toolbar still had its three entries, they could only be seen in the Bookmarks Manager; in FF itself, the bar was blank, and even moving it up to the navigation bar, where I normally position it, failed to show the Smart Bookmarks and two site icons. Reinstalling the places.sqlite from a known-to-be good copy (because it worked with the profile it was in) did not fix it.

3. Started yet another profile. This one, too, had a weird problem, namely that my Brief.sqlite file would not work: I could not read any news feeds, I could not clear the supposedly-new entries in Brief, deleted the file, started over, which worked.

3a. Having finally restored matters to at least close to my standard settings, and with NoScript 2.1 installed, I brought up the page I had saved from yesterday, the page where I found that I could not remove the NoScript "Show messages" line; clicked on the option in NoScript, the line was cleared. A while later, just before composing this incredibly meaningful and important missive, I turned the NoScript notification back on; as soon as page appeared that showed the notification, I again turned them off in NoScript, and that worked.

Sigh, alas, alack, and/or et cetera (which is properly abbreviated etc., not the meaningless and too-often seen "ect.")