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[Jens]

Hi,

I am new on this mailing list. I am located in Germany.

Yesterday I discovered Falkon as part of the KDE Desktop Environment on 
kde.org and installed Falkon on my machine with Debian 12 ("Bookworm") from 
the Debian repositories.

I found out that the version of Falkon which the Debian repositories provide 
for the current stable Debian 12 version is quite old.

I then posted a toot on Mastodon about myself having discovered the Falkon 
browser. Another Mastodon user answered to my toot telling me that the latest 
executable file of the MS Windows version of Falkon provided on https://
download.kde.org/Attic/falkon/ is quite old. So first I thought the Falkon 
project is "dead".

But then I looked at the Gitlab site at https://invent.kde.org/network/falkon 
and found out that there are people currently working on the code of Falkon. 

So I cloned the latest Falkon code to my machine this morning, had to install 
an appr. extra 2 GB of Debian packages in order to be able to successfully run 
cmake to completely configure Falkons source code for compilation, compiled and 
then installed the Falkon code into my home directory.

Now I have Falkon in version 24.01.75 installed on my machine. 

A little hint: In the Help menu > About Falkon, the "About Falkon" window 
still shows "© 2010 - 2018 David Rosca" - wouldn't it be time to give an 
update to this time stamp? ;-)

The version of Falkon that comes with Debian 12 ("Bookworm") from its 
repositories also has the time stamp "© 2010 - 2018 David Rosca".

I think I could do some QA for the Falkon project, maybe also some 
translations into German, if necessary.

Regards,

Jens