Every time I wanted to check my portfolio in the morning, I opened a new tab, went to a financial site, waited for ads to load, navigated through onboarding prompts, and finally got to a number. This took 45 seconds for a 2-second answer.
The problem was not the data. Market data is freely available. The problem was the interface around it.
What Stock Market and Finance Dashboard does
Puts a live stock ticker on your Firefox new tab. Enter the symbols you care about. Every time you open a new tab, you see: current price, day change, and percentage change.
No account. No subscription. No ads loading before the data.
The data comes from public market APIs that provide real-time (or near-real-time) quotes. The same underlying data as Bloomberg — the difference is just the interface.
What you can track
- Individual stocks (AAPL, MSFT, TSLA, etc.)
- ETFs (VOO, QQQ, etc.)
- Indices (S&P 500, Dow Jones, Nasdaq)
- Any ticker available on the data provider
You add symbols, they persist in extension storage. The layout is clean — a grid of symbols with the numbers that matter.
Why no account is the right design
Financial dashboards that require accounts are storing your portfolio data. They use it for personalization, targeted advertising, and in some cases, selling it to data brokers who infer things from your holdings.
A browser extension that runs locally has no backend. The extension fetches public data for symbols you enter. Those symbols are stored in Firefox's extension storage, not on any server. The company behind the extension has no way to see which stocks you are watching.
For anyone who prefers to keep their financial interests private, this is a material difference.
The case against Bloomberg Terminal (for personal use)
Bloomberg Terminal costs ~$24,000 per year. That is designed for professional trading desks, not personal portfolio monitoring.
For personal use, you need:
- Current price
- Day change
- Maybe a sparkline
A free Firefox extension covers this completely.
Install it
Stock Market and Finance Dashboard — Firefox Add-ons
Free. No account. Works in Firefox.
Stock Market Dashboard is one of 11 Firefox extensions I built — all free, no-account, no-server. See the full series for the others.
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