flash player settings manager does not display

[this-is-ridiculous]

This happens in both Safari 4.0.4 and Firefox 3.5.5. Mac OS X Leopard (10.5.8). I just get an empty white rectanglar space where the settings panel ought to be. Rest of the page (help, menu sidebar, etc) displays just fine. Happened with Flash Player 10.0.32, so I upgraded to 10.0.42. Same problem. In Firefox it happens even if I turn off NoScript.

I'm trying to access the settings panel at http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager02.html

Safari's Activity manager shows the error "expired server certificate" for

https://www.macromedia.com/support/flashplayer/sys/settingsmanager2.swf?defaultTab=privacy

Firefox's Error Console does not seem to show that error. It merely spits out nearly 100 warnings about the page.

Page Info indicates the settings panel is embedded with dimensions of 0px x 0px

But Firefox has a non-encrypted panel:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flashplayer/sys/settingsmanager.swf

"The site www.macromedia.com does not support encryption for the page you are viewing."

I don't see anyone else reporting this problem. Any ideas about what could be blocking the panel from displaying that i can fix?

[Guest]

I can confirm this. Its a bit of a pain.

[bees2111]

Started having exactlt the same problem very recently

no picture where settings manager should appear,

upgraded to newer player- still have the same problem 

[OzBoz]

Same here on a PC using different browsers.

[apblank]

Just registering that I have the same problem as well.  Tried flash 10.0.42 on Firefox 3.5.5 and IE 8.  I had this problem on two seperate windows XP machines, both running SP 3.

Anyone have an idea as to what's up?

Andy

[bees2111]

Have tried reinstalling and am using both IE 8 and the latest firefox (just for reference) ...still no good,

at least a few of us have the same problem - maybe makes a solution more likely.

[bees2111]

and Vista Premium operating system

[bees2111]

seems to be working now -  

hope everyone else is the same.

[OzBoz]

Same her, works like it did before.. 

[this-is-ridiculous]

Yep, same here. Nice that they fixed it quickly. Wish there was a way to adjust the settings without depending on a web page to get at them.