Why is there no Adobe PDF browser plugin for Firefox?

Firefox has just under 23% market share of the global internet broswer market and is second to IE. Is there a technical reason as to why Adobe hasn't built a plugin or Add-on for Firefox?? Firefox is open source so it can't be any sort of licensing or rights issue. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
To avoid wasted airtime, please refrain from replying with "Adobe X can do it". I've seen that in a few old posts from what seems to be a cavalier Adobe employee. This has to do with Adobe Acrobat functionality with Firefox, regardless of version. I run Windows 7 64 bit with Acrobat 9. Thanks

Please re-read the initial post
I have read the post.
You question was:
Is there a technical reason as to why Adobe hasn't built a plugin or Add-on for Firefox??
My answer:
Acrobat X comes with a add-on for Firefox.

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