Poor font display in Acrobat X

When I view many PDF files in Acrobat Pro X (10.1.9) in Windows 7, the font displays poorly:
The same file appears fine in the Firefox viewer:
Any idea how I can fix the issue?

A couple of questions about the displays above.
What are your Page Display preferences in Acrobat?
Is the font in the PDF file embedded?
What is the Firefox viewer? Do you mean the JS file named PDF.js?
Can you post a sample file that is displaying this behavior?

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