what changed recently with browser plugins?

[Jonathan Horne]

i want to say it was early to mid-october, that standard opera and firefox 
stopped working (upon upgrade) with the plugins (flash).  previously, most 
flash that i would encounter worked fine in opera, which was my preference 
since java (such as weathermaps on www.noaa.gov) worked without a hitch as 
well.

now that time has passed, flashplugin has stopped working with standard opera, 
and now that im woefully using linux-opera, the java stuff doesnt work like i 
would expect.

is there anyway to get my updated system to behave like it used to? (mostly 
pertaining to flash, as java still works right under 'standard' opera).

thanks,
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Jonathan Horne
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freebsd at dfwlp.com