PDF creation hangs on Acrobat XI on Firefox with MS7

Up to now Acrobat XI has created PDF documents from websites without a problem. However since the new year it has started to hang - sometimes completely (i.e. no document is created), sometimes a document is created but the "Creating Adobe PDF" Window doesn't close (see below). I'm using Firefox on MS7. Acrobat Update 11.0.10 was installed December 12th, the last MS security update was December 18th, Firefox 34.0.5 on December 10th. The problem with the create window not closing also occurs on IE, but it hasn't failed to create a PDF (yet). Any ideas?

Hello, this also fixes the problem, and yet no one answered me. More about the discussion on this issue is here: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1166751?tstart=60
In Acrobat X, I also solved the problem, if you're interested, here's more: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1029000?tstart=0
Until this error is corrected, for my purposes Acrobat Pro XI unusable.
Ales Ulrych

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