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. | |
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: 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. | |
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, ... |
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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. |