Tested with IE9 and Firefox, problem does not occur in Firefox.
I am using
<object data="/generatepdf/docid=23" width="960" height="1360"></object>
to embed a pdf, and when I break into the server code of the generator or check the weblog, I can see that the data url is always being called exactly three times for one single request - generating the same pdf three times.
When I replace the same thing with
<iframe src="/generatepdf/docid=23" width="960" height="1360"></iframe>
then I do not get this weird effect. But I like the way displays better, no scrollbars and the pdf seems to get more control (a toolbar that appears on mouseover), plus the iframe sometimes overlaps with an autocomplete.