I can't open PDF documents

When I click on a PDF file, a new tab opens. It gives me the opportunity to open the document directly or save it - that's what I have set preferences to do. When I try one of these options, however, nothing happens. It doesn't open a new empty tab. My specs are lower. I have run all relevant software updates.

System: OS X 10.8.2

Adobe Reader: 10.1.5

Firefox: 18.0.1

I've seen this problem on other posts and I did some research on the web. I tried the solutions that were provided and worked for other people, however I have noticed they were running old versions of some software, etc. Interestingly, I CAN open PDFs that come to me or that I send through Gmail.

I did the following in accordance with the notice that I saw:

Erased my downloads list

Tried to disable the NPAPI Adobe plug-in

In my Firefox preferences: I put open Adobe PDF documents. I also tried with preview. None of them worked.

I appreciate any help you can offer.

That worked very well for me.
In the case your application preferences file is corrupted, you could try rename or delete.
Help > troubleshooting information > 'display the folder '.
The file is named mimeTypes.rdf and if you rename or delete, there must be regenerated with a default the next time you restart Firefox.

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