Open a pdf-file in a window in Firefox?

In Firefox I can download pdf-files and then open them. There is a choice to open pdf-files directly in Firefox but the problem is that the pdf-reader program is set to Adobe Reader 6.0 (standard). This program can´t open most of the pdf-files.
How to change from Adobe Reader6.0 to another pdf-reading program?
Thanks in advance
Jafo

Thank you. That works well for files that are already on the computer. My issue is with PDF files that are attachments, not yet downloaded, in Safari and Firefox. When they are downloaded, they do open properly with Preview. My need is to open them automatically from attachment rather than download (as one step) and opening with Preview (second step). Tiger offered the option to open the file and view immediately upon selecting the attachment (or at least, I was able to do it in Tiger). Of course, it did download it, but that was behind the scenes. From my perspective, you click on the attachment and Preview opens up with the file. Any ideas?

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