Slow capture restart
Any idea why restarting capture is extremely slow in wireshark (if the amount of captured data was large)? I use Version 2.4.2 (v2.4.2-0-gb6c63ae086) and I capture around 100MB of udp packets, when i try to restart capture it takes extremely long time (over 10 seconds) and wireshark blocks entire window and becomes unresponsive during this time.
I have enough ram, it shouldn't block on that, should just close that existing capture run (by releasing all associated resources) in some background thread.
Another point: I prefer to use keyboard shortcuts to restart capture and "Continue without Saving". The Ctrl+R dialog (to restart capture) doesn't handle properly keyboard input, if I press Tab or [right/left] the "Continue without Saving" button doesn't get the same handling as the other two.
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As for the last part, please file a bug report.
Note that 2.4.2 is long out of support, so if there are any changes to be made, at best they'll appear in 3.2 and 3.4. If this is a distribution built version (Redhat, etc.) then they might backport the change, but that's entirely up to them.