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I have a problem similar to this closed thread (http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/857056#answer-224505) where Firefox couldn't handle backslashes in the link to a pdf file.
On a website (that you won't be able to access) there is a link to a pdf file. When I click on the link I get the error "The system cannot find the file specified", but it works in IE and Chrome.
When I copy the link address, Firefox copies:
http://webserver1a.charlottechristian.com/NetClassroom7/Forms/%5C%5Clsserver3.charlottechristian.com/ClassDocuments/9934/Honors%20Physics%20Notebook%202012-13.pdf
The %5C are backslashes. The other browsers only copy what is after the backslashes. They start with the lserver3.
Possibly the site is not designed well, but I have no control over that.
Why would the other browsers copy and go to the link correctly, but Firefox not. I did try refreshing the cache and the slashy add-on mentioned in the other thread, and I tried in in safe mode.

Firefox sees such a link as a relative link and prefixes them with the path of the current web page. 
*\\lsserver3.charlottechristian.com/ClassDocuments/9934/Honors Physics Notebook 2012-13.pdf
So it looks that the link to the PDF file is on the http://webserver1a.charlottechristian.com/NetClassroom7/Forms/ page.
Visitors can use an extension use a bookmarklet to fix this issue, but you need to change the %5C backslashes (\) to forward slashes in all links to make it work in Firefox.
*Slashy: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/slashy/

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