A new version of the Opera web browser makes improvements to the video pop-out feature, adds a news reader, and adds customizable block lists to the integrated ad blocker.

The context menu that appears when right-clicking selected page text now includes more useful options. Opera’s memory footprint has been improved with version 39.

The Opera 39 announcement doesn’t include a link to the change log, so I had to go hunting for it on the Opera web site. Eventually I found it on the Opera desktop blog. Note that while many of the entries in the change log refer to unreleased, developer or beta versions, all of the changes described apply to the newly-released version, 39.0.2256.42.

Meanwhile, other Opera web resources have disappeared (Unified change logs for Opera), and others include no mention of Opera 39 (Opera for Windows change log). That’s just sloppy.