3.15. The "Help" menu

The Wireshark Help menu contains the fields shown in Table 3.12, “Help menu items”.

Figure 3.13. The "Help" Menu

The "Help" Menu

Table 3.12. Help menu items

Menu ItemAcceleratorDescription
ContentsF1

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, ...


[Note]Note!

Calling a Web browser might be unsupported in your version of Wireshark. If this is the case, the corresponding menu items will be hidden.

[Note]Note!

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.