My Safari won't show PDF?

Help...
My mac won't show PDF files in safari. This means that I have to download every PDF file i come i contact with.
Does anybody know what is wrong? and what I can do to fix it?

Open a Finder window.
Select MacintoshHD in the Sidebar on the left then open the LIbrary folder then the Internet Plug-Ins folder.
Move the PDF Browser Plug-in and any Adobe plugins to the Trash.
Restart your Mac. Try Safari.

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Make sure you are looking in the correct Library. There are two. One is root, one is your Home folder.
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