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I used to love MSN Deluxe Charts. I still think they're good, but not for me. I switched to the Firefox browser and Firefox and Microsoft's ActiveX controls do not talk to each other. What I used to do is switch to IE if I wanted to see the big chart. It's cumbersome to do that. I want to see my charts in a new tab in Firefox. Guess what? I found such a chart: PerfChart at StockCharts.com. It takes a little time to get used to it, but I find myself using that instead of MSN Charts and I'm happy. (See image, below.)

ADP's chart is shown in the detached mode. It's a very interactive chart. If you maximize it, you see it on the whole screen. You can increase the date range by dragging the range to the left (up to 1506 days). It shows you performance during the selected period. That's exactly what I was looking for.

If you use Firefox, make sure you set up the following bookmark:

Location: http://stockcharts.com/webcgi/perf.html?%s
Keyword: dc

Just like the following.

Now when I type "dc adp" in the address bar, I get the chart of ADP (see the first image). It is a big time saver.