Thread: Firmware Update - 4.5.9587
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Old 07-22-2017, 06:57 AM   #60
davidfor
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Originally Posted by johnnyb View Post
davidfor, you should really consider your overly defensive stance.
Sorry, I have no idea how I am being defensive in my posts with Blossom. Can you explain what you think is defensive?
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Writing something like "it is likely it's Dropbox" is just the flipside of "it's just as likely it's Kobo".
While Dropbox is known to tweak their services perhaps too often, Kobo is known to reintroduce bugs in newer firmwares, perhaps too often.
Your comments on these matters often read like long-winded dismissals of the issues when it is the more plausible thing to assume that Kobo messed up. Granted, you list many other sources of error, but it is less likely that they all appear at the same time than it is to assume that Kobo messed up.
I'll cop to "long-winded". I have the possibly unfortunate desire to actually explain what I am thinking of and give reasoned answers to questions. If that comes off as long-winded, than I'll have to put up with that reputation.

I don't think I have been dismissing peoples complaints. Except when they can't back them up. Or maybe the fiftieth "am I the only one seeing" report for a bug that has been extensively discussed for the last few weeks.

I don't think I was being dismissive of Blossom's complaint. I know there are bugs in the firmware. I know there are bugs in browser. What I don't know is what firmware Blossom is using or referring to. If I correctly interpreted the version, then what Blossom is seeing is at complete odds with what I and others saw. With that firmware, any of the 4.4.x versions, I was able to successfully download epubs of varying sizes from several sites. If Blossom could not from one site, that suggests that the site is the problem. Of course, if Blossom is referring to a 4.3.x version, then yes, it is a problem with the browser from Kobo. But, until Blossom actually give me a version number, I won't know for sure.

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What you are doing is simply not helpful.
And thank you for all of the helpful posts you have made around here.
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