No need to apologize Linuxmint7. Everything is cool. I'm not a feminist or liberal. Just want my computer to work properly.
yeah lem729, that's an old southern expression. I like it too.

lem729-yeah it started working again, it was glitchy at first then it settled down and now all the videos work fine.
and thank you linuxmint7 for clarifying..and I am a Grandma old woman..not a he...but that's ok.

ah. I'm just happy it's working fine now.

well, I say it does because every time Opera has updated in the past few weeks, something changed. even my tool bar and the display changed and the whole page changed, subtle and slightly.
and yesterday right before I shut down my computer, opera updated.
then today, not one video on any website worked. every single video on the news, or a game site, or a blog, or any website, everyone of them showed a silver screen, with a play button, and it said underneath, click here to enable adobe flash player. and I'd click it, and then the screen would go black and it's say error.
and I checked my adobe flash updates and I was up to date and I haven't changed my flash setting at all.
now I also have firefox, and I went to firefox and all the videos and games and everything worked just fine.
I ran my security and firewall and encryption and avg scans and nothing showed up.
now, everything was fine until that new last opera update.

I'm having video flash issues too and it's affecting all the video on all the websites and on news and games and vimeo and it sorta fixed itself but not completely.
opera updated last night when I went to shut down and today nothing has worked properly.
so goes Chrome, so goes internet explorer.
i think i'm just gonna quit using computers.
when you start spending all your time trying to fix everything, it's not useful anymore.
just give me an old ford a land line and a ham radio and cb and the local post office.

I know exactly what you're saying. sometime, even after I close all my tabs, and I go to shut down, every page that had a video open prior will appear and they'll start closing off one by one.
or, sometimes, when I go to open a new tab, the last page I was on will pop up momentarily!
or I'll go to shut down and it'll appear, Windows cant shut down due to these pages still running or some such alert. even after all those tabs had been close a long time ago.
and going into task manager it wont show any of those things.
so all this computer technology is out growing the abilities and understanding of these programmers.
and it's aggravating.
but the video flash issues makes me the maddest.

For what it's worth, I don't like the bookmarks system either.
I wish it was simplified and I could have a file for recipes, for grandkids, for gardening, for political, games, etc., and then had a choice/option when I book mark which file I want to send a book mark to.
I have hundreds of bookmarks and it's always a hassle to find a particular one. I find the pages I want by the picture icon easier than reading them.
I really wish bookmarks would give me an easy option to send particular pages to particular files based on subject/content.
I do like speed dial but now it's getting crowded.

Guys...I'm a Grandma in Alaska......."he must have:.....uh uhm uhmmm. Ha Ha Ha!
well I can watch my news now.
I quit using chrome because the flash players were always crashing on me. and firefox was just getting too crowded. Now I was told, by a 'expert computer programmer' guy, that chrome has a default flash player and that when you added adobe or other flash players, they tried to override one another and would cancel each other out. cause I'd have video and no audio, or vise-versa. or nothing at all.

so that was why i went to opera. and it's worked perfect for almost a year until today. as long as I can see my grandkids' videos and my family and the news and watch my favorite folks on youtube I'm a happy Grandma.

Thanks guys or gals.

either, it doesn't matter. any website, news, youtube, any game, the video screen is silver, it has a play icon in the center and says underneath, click here to enable adobe flash player, then if I click on that, the screen goes black and it says error. and it's the same if it's news, or anything, game. it mean it's screwed up.
and there's nothing wrong with my adobe flash. it says i'm up to date.
YOUR SYSTEM INFORMATION
Your Flash Version
13.0.0

Well Praise the Lord and Pass the gravy! Youtube just started working and the games loaded!

Someone must have seen this and fixed it. probably nsa or the other abc's fixing their glitches so they can keep monitoring what we're doing.

21.0.1432.67 - Opera is up to date

If I uninstall opera, then reinstall, it will probably fix it but I hate to do that and have to go back and reset all my book marks and crap.