Why do PDFs no longer appear in Firefox after registering CS6 in MacOS?

I have a 2-year-old MacBook Pro with (I think Mountain Lion (MacOS X 10.8.1). I have Creative Suite Design Premium installed. I went to buy Creative Suite Web & Design Premium CS6. While I waited for it to arrive, I installed the demo, and when my package arrived, I simply entered the serial number.
That was the key change between then and now. Then, when I browsed with my primary browser (Firefox) and encountered a PDF file, it opened fine. Now, I get a blank window.
I did notice I was using an older version of Firefox. I upgraded to the lates version (15.0.1, I think). No change. I updated all my CS6 products. No change. I shut down and restarted my machine. No change.
I can go to the same place and open PDFs fine in Safari and Chrome.The fundamental bottom line is that before I entered my serial #, I could open PDFs fine within a Firefox window, and after I entered my serial #, I can't. I get just a blank window with the address to the PDF file clearly in the address bar. A refresh of the window still leaves in blank.
(Note, this isn't the first functionality problem I've found on the MacOS version--I have a Mac and a Windows version--In Dreamweaver, the default Preview in Browser items did not work and I was instructed to delete all my browsers and re-add them.)
I have tried viewing PDF files from several different sites, including my portfolio site (http://chuck.martin.name/portfolio/), and none of them work. Anyone else having this issue with CS6 and Firefox on MacOS?

None of the persons responding to your post are Googlers or Google fanboys. Manish is an Adobe technical support engineer and both Steve Werner and Bob Levine are exceptionally competent and knowledgeable contributors to these forums.
It is indeed true that we at Adobe and other software developers have had significant problems with rapid updates of FireFox that have automatically disabled what the FireFox developers believe to be incompatible plug-ins. FireFox updates (either explicit or without your knowledge) may or may not the cause of the problem you see.
What we can tell you is that as far as we know at Adobe about the code and based on the lack of similar reports from others with such a symptom, there is absolutely nothing in the serialization / activation / registering of the Adobe Creative Suite software that would muck around in any way with the Adobe PDF plug-in for Safari or the plumbing used therein.
Manish asked whether you checked as to whether the PDF plug-in to FireFox is enabled. Please check on that. If it was somehow disabled, try re-enabling it and see if that resolves the problem after restarting FireFox. If the PDF plug-in was already enabled, re-enabling the plug-in doesn't resolve the problem, or you don't see the PDF plug-in option at all, please advise.
- Dov

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