@Cerberus Ah, that used to give me problems too. No guarantee about fixing it with NoScript, however I've noticed that the layout is very sensitive to site style. I'll try to rectify that (when I get time).

...doesn't the vote count already do this?

Hmm, after installing it I ran it and there wasn't any visible change. (I'm on precise). I also navigated to the stackapplet folder and directly ran python stackapplet.py, but that just did nothing (without any error, and without giving me back the terminal). Any idea how I should run it?