Wow what a downgrade, I did not like Opera (long time ago) but installed it about 6 months ago and I was impressed with the way it looked so I have used it ever since, i actually spent time reading the news. will look at the other browsers now to see if i can get something similar.
IMO - A choice to have it enabled or disabled would have been the right thing to do

I have looked in the SETTINGS/Websites and under the Flash section I have "Allow sites to run Flash" ticked.