Acrobat PDF links open in Safari

In OS X, with Acrobat CS4, I read a PDF article with a link to an online PDF file. This was opened inside of Safari, even though Firefox is my default browser. How do I change this behavior?
(I would have thought that Acrobat would open up an online Acrobat file in itself!)
Thanks,
Jim

Because they don't FireFox, and SeaMonkey are the most popular Web Browsers on the Macintosh Platform. and for some reason Adobe doesn't know how tow handle Gecko based rendering engines, and stick with rendering engines called WebKit; which are not any faster at rendering web pages. They don't realize that any Gecko base Web Browser can render any and all web pages (except those with Active-X, unless they have a plug-in), whether for using WebKit, or Gecko in Mind.
I've railing to Adobe about this for years. But it falls on deaf ears.
You have to remember adobe provides product for the Mac platform, even though they originated on that platform, out of of resignation , that they must. Than a real desire to create applications that work on any Platform. Adobe along with others tow the line of the 800 pound Gorilla (MS), rather than catering to need and desires of customers. Even if you put suggestion on their suggestion (feedback page) as soon as they see its from a Mac user it goes in the bit bucket.
The regular That answer question can deny it all they want but they know in their heart of hearts, they are true.

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