3.15. The “Help” menu
From Wireshark 2.1
The Wireshark Help menu contains the fields shown in Table 3.12, “Help menu items”.
Table 3.12. Help menu items
| Menu Item | Accelerator | Description |
|---|---|---|
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Contents |
F1 |
This menu item brings up a basic help system. |
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Manual Pages → … |
|
This menu item starts a Web browser showing one of the locally installed html manual pages. |
|
Website |
|
This menu item starts a Web browser showing the webpage from: https://www.wireshark.org/. |
|
FAQ’s |
|
This menu item starts a Web browser showing various FAQ’s. |
|
Downloads |
|
This menu item starts a Web browser showing the downloads from: https://www.wireshark.org/download.html. |
|
Wiki |
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This menu item starts a Web browser showing the front page from: https://wiki.wireshark.org/. |
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Sample Captures |
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This menu item starts a Web browser showing the sample captures from: https://wiki.wireshark.org/SampleCaptures. |
|
About Wireshark |
|
This menu item brings up an information window that provides various detailed information items on Wireshark, such as how it’s build, the plugins loaded, the used folders, … |
![[Note]](/Wireshark-2.1/note.svg)
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Note |
|---|---|
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Opening a Web browser might be unsupported in your version of Wireshark. If this is the case the corresponding menu items will be hidden. If calling a Web browser fails on your machine, nothing happens, or the browser starts but no page is shown, have a look at the web browser setting in the preferences dialog. |