Wireshark · Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 10488] New: Wireshark should let you work with multiple capture files.

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Bug ID	10488
Summary	Wireshark should let you work with multiple capture files.
Product	Wireshark
Version	Git
Hardware	All
OS	All
Status	UNCONFIRMED
Severity	Normal
Priority	Low
Component	Qt UI
Assignee	bugzilla-admin@wireshark.org
Reporter	gerald@wireshark.org

Build Information:
Paste the COMPLETE build information from "Help->About Wireshark", "wireshark
-v", or "tshark -v".
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Wireshark's architecture assumes that users will only work with one capture
file at a time using a single main window. This isn't how normal document-based
desktop applications work. As a result, users have to open a separate instance
of the executable for each capture file (which is odd on Windows and Linux and
*really* odd on OS X). It also shows up in places like the toolbar -- we have a
non-standard "Close" button where in other apps you'd just close the window.

Adding support for opening multiple capture files in the same process would let
us add interesting features such as the ability to compare capture files. (We
currently have a "compare" feature but it doesn't work very well.)

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