Summary

The newer version of Wireshark has adopted a new framework that gives us a new and totally amazing GUI. The older version was built upon the GTK framework, and since now we have the QT framework, from the perspective of a normal user, the differences are mostly concerned with its look and feel.

Scrolling is definitely one of the tools that we all have seen in all major applications, but hats off to the developers who came up with such a creative idea of showing the coloring pattern of your trace file inside the scroll bar while you are trying to look for something specific. It does give an extra advantage.

The Translation feature makes Wireshark more international and close to every user in terms of personalization. As many Wireshark users ...

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