Problem displaying PDF in Firefox 4 browser

Since installing Firefox, I cannot download a PDF file larger than 5MB and get it to display in the browser. A file of 4.9MB works OK. If I disable the Adobe Reader plug-in, I can download the larger file and it will display in Adobe. Same issue with the Foxit plugin.

I have more information. The problem is with the SRC parameter with my object tag. It runs fine on Adobe Reader 10.1.0. It doesn't with 10.1.2. Using Fiddler2 I captured data using Reader 10.1.0 and 10.1.2. In both cases, the data appears to be the same. I get an HTTP/1.1 200 OK in both cases. So the file is downloaded, it just isn't loaded into the Reader in 10.1.2. Any ideas?

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1. It happens across more websites than just one example that I've quoted.
2. It happens on my desktop only - I don't have the problem on 4 other portable computers, including ones running the same O/S
3. Desktop is running Windows Home Pro, all updates executed, running the latest version of Acrobat reader with all updates executed - I tried yet another uninstall, reboot, new download, reinstall, reboot etc. yesterday. Desktop is HP Pavillion with 12GB RAM
4. I get the random character display when running IE9 on the desktop, I have also replicated the problem with other versions of IE installed instead. If I try using Chrome as a browser it goes away and tries and just fails to open the link entirely and reverts to the original page.
5. I've already checked online for similar problems and can confirm that all the Adobe plugins are installed per what seems standard advice I have also checked the internet settings in Adobe Acrobat preferences and all seems fine.
6. Thing like the browsers and Adobe arobat are running as per their standard set-ups with nothing else done to these.
7. Any other PDF files stored on the hard drive of the desktop open in Acrobat reader without problems
8. Acrobat reader version is 11.0.06.70
Any assistance to open the PDF files in the browser and get it working particularly with IE would be great, I am quite IT literate and can try most things. Many thanks

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I have no idea how to edit the above message, but apparently it has been rejected. I cannot understand why, I am a regular contributor in many forums and have never suffered the indignity of having had a message rejected before. The message contains an excellent example of the problems I am having in the following link Vacancies
How on earth can I demonstrate the problems I am having without being to post an example - that example has both sorts of links on one page, ones I can open and ones I can't - if anyone with technical knowledge is trying to help me then that is just the sort of page that would be useful to help solve the problem. Rather than the link to the ECHA website in the above posting (which I note was approved). I struggle with your logic in accepting one message and rejecting the other. It is difficult enough as a user to describe a problem in words let alone have the best example of the problem rejected without explanation and no right of appeal on the email that I got telling me. Not happy here! All I am trying to do is to solve the problem I have

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I have to deploy Acrobat 9 due to the bug I discovered here:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/865843
(With many other frustrating responses).
This is getting a little irritating...
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XP SP3
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We recently encountered some issues with Adobe 9.0.0 on Citrix servers. We updated to Version 9.3.4, since we had not fully tested Reader X yet.
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Yes the pdf is opening in adobe. But I don't want to open a new adobe browser to open.
I want to display in the current web browser where my application is running.
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Is there any other way to embed the (byte array)pdf file in the current window.
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