PDF files will not open with adobe or another pdf addon; they go immediately to a screen that says 'about:blank.'

I have tried both Adobe X and pdf download, using Firefox 5. If I click on a pdf, another tab opens and I get a blank screen that says above it 'about:blank.' This happens regardless of if I set things to open to browser or in the pdf viewer itself.

MotorAdmin wrote:
Please wait... if this message is not eventually replaced by the proper contents of the document, your PDF viewer may not be able to display this type of content. You canupgrade tot he latest version of Adobe Reader for Windows, Mac or Linux by visiting http://www.adobe.com/go/reader_download.
These are online documents, right? This message usually means that you are trying to open the doc in a browser that uses its own PDF viewer, not the Adobe Reader plugin.

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