Reading PDF documents from Web pages, Acrobat vs. Preview

When I encounter Web pages with PDF document links, I'd like to open them using the Adobe Acrobat application, not Preview. I haven't found a way to change the behavior of the Mac OS to permit me to set the default app.
I did find a way to change the default app to open PDF documents on the hard drive (though I can't recall where I found this feature), but it has no effect when I click links in Web pages.
By the way, I'm using Firefox as my default browser, not Safari.
How do I change the behavior? Is there a better support forum than this one?
Thanks.
Jerry

I think you need this Firefox Add-on for handling PDFs in Firefox;
PDF Download
Allows to choose if you want to view a PDF file inside the browser (as PDF or HTML), if you want to view it outside Firefox with your default or custom PDF reader, or if you want to download it!
I was reminding you how you set files to use certain programs because you said you forgot how.

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