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Old 09-19-2026, 10:27 AM   #128
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Originally Posted by MrSilverstrike View Post
I'd very much call the 5.x firmware a work in progress.

There's bugs, it's somewhat slow. But you do have access to Adobe's renderer if you need it, which is a good fallback. I generally consider it a downgrade from 4.x (for now) unless you frequently use the built-in browser. Chromium driving the browser means all web browsing on the device receives a major upgrade.

For pure reading, I think you can objectively say that the reader app is somewhat slower than the previous one.

From a security POV of course it's good that they've updated their system software stack, but I hope they continue to polish the reader app specifically before they call this release "done".

(They did finally add a clock!)
Do you know if RMSDK in 5.x has been upgraded? Does it support font-variant-caps: small-caps;?
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