Problem opening PDF's in Firefox

I am using Adobe Dreamweaver for my design, and am testing locally using Firefox. I am using Firefox 27.0
I recently created several PDF's that have links in them that go to other PDF's. When I click on the link in the PDF file, I get no response, but instead get an error message at the bottom left of the browser: "resource://pdf.js/web". I have never had this problem before. Any PDF always opened up in what I would call a PDF Reader within Firefox. I did get it to work yesterday, but I had to change the reader that Firefox uses to Adobe Acrobat.
My concern is what will happen when I go live. Will everyone out there using Firefox be unable to open the links in the PDF's? Will they have to change the reader in their Firefox to Adobe?
I have never had this issue with "resource://pdf.js/web". Why all of a sudden has it become an issue? I don't get the window in the upper corner that asks me to allow. I do however get that window in IE 11.
Any help would be appreciated. I would like this site to go live this week, but am concerned as to how it will work.
Thanks.
Ted

This is a problem (bug) with the built-in PDF Viewer (pdfjs) that currently doesn't handle this link properly.
*http://starkhealth.org/enviro/GRADE%20A%20FOOD%20EXCELLENCE%20AWARD.pdf
I've seen issues like this before, but can't find a bug about this issue.

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