Firefox and PDF's

I use Firefox for most of my Web browsing, but the one thing I can't stand about it is how it treat's PDF's. Everytime I try to open a PDF, it will only give me the option to open it with preview (the "default application"), or to save it to disk. While I like using Preview for certain files, I hate reading PDF's in them. I can not get Firefox to open PDF's in Adobe Reader. I am perplexed as to why. Interestingly enough, on my old mac, it would only open in Adobe Reader (and there was no way to get it to open directly in Preview).
I'd like to know how I might be able to directly open a PDF from Firefox into Adobe Reader. I'm on a Macbook running the lastest version of Mac OS, Firefox, Preview and Adobe Reader. Additionally, I have changed the file preferences on my mac so that PDF's (when saved) open by default in Reader, I'm just not sure why I can't get this to happen with Firefox. Any advice would help...thanks.
Message was edited by: emcampbe

Open preferences, and on the contents tab you will see a button for managing file types. Open that, and you will find what you seek. Change the default PDF to open with Adobe reader.

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