Wireshark will start very slowly when the open recent records have been created too abundantly.
This issue was migrated from bug 6056 in our old bug tracker.
Original bug information:
Reporter: tibin
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Product: Wireshark
Component: GTK+ UI
OS: Windows XP
Platform: x86
Version: 1.4.0
Duplicate of issue #3810 (closed)