Firefox opens when downloading PDF file while running IE9

Having problems displaying a PDF file (very low resolution & bad contrast). So I tried IE9. When I click on the link, Firefox opens to display the PDF "Swett/Sweet", even when Firefox is not running.
Page with the file "Swett/Sweet" is pg 34 at this URL https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/images/d/d8/Digitalbooks2012julygenealogies.pdf
Other files seem to be OK. Was told by the Admin at familysearch.org that they could not duplicate the problem but were using Chrome.

Usually when you uncheck that setting, the browser will ask you whether you want to Open or Save the file. Do you get that prompt, or just nothing?
I've probably used IE9 for less than 5 minutes, so if there is something new about the way it handles PDFs compared to earlier versions, I wouldn't know.

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