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. |
| Manual Pages > ... |
This menu item starts a Web browser showing one of the locally installed html manual pages. |
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| Website |
This menu item starts a Web browser showing the webpage from: http://www.wireshark.org. |
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| FAQ's |
This menu item starts a Web browser showing various FAQ's. |
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| Downloads |
This menu item starts a Web browser showing the downloads from: http://www.wireshark.org. |
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| Wiki |
This menu item starts a Web browser showing the front page from: http://wiki.wireshark.org. |
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| Sample Captures |
This menu item starts a Web browser showing the sample captures from: http://wiki.wireshark.org. |
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| 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]](note.png)
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Note! |
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Calling a Web browser might be unsupported in your version of Wireshark. If this is the case, the corresponding menu items will be hidden. |
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If calling a Web browser fails on your machine, maybe because just nothing happens or the browser is started but no page is shown, have a look at the web browser setting in the preferences dialog. |