Windows 7 PC will not open links from PDF docs or other things outside browser since update

Just finished update on 9/8 on one pc and 9/9 on the other. This has happened on two PCs now, both running Windows 7 one is 32-bit and one is 64-bit. When clicking on a link in a PDF it will give an error message and will not open in Firefox. Also clicking on "Launch Dropbox website" will not work. Anybody know what's causing this and how to fix it?

Make sure you have a local installation of a PDF reader available. I recommend against using the Adobe software and going to oldversion.com to download an earlier version of Foxit reader (I recommend with going something before the 3.4 version to avoid the annoying Ask.com adware that's associated with newer versions of Foxit. After you've installed Foxit reader, download a PDF file and save it to your downloads folder, open up Windows explorer, right click on the pdf file, select "Open With", click the box that says "always open files of this type with this program", then select Foxit Reader. That should solve your problem.

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