<![CDATA[[Solved]Weird start up connections!]]>Hello Opera Community.

Day 2, testing Opera v.43.0.2442.991. On my win 7 64bit its working smoothly. Great job by developers!^^

What made me to return in Opera (Presto user in the past) are features like VPN and Block Ads. Cool things! But my Firewall noticed me about some strange connections!

Could someone explain to me what is the purpose of these connections? To be more precise, Opera try to connect at startup with IPs: 162.144.19.11, 104.84.225.83

http://imgur.com/NDbHhvF

Thank You

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/19465/solved-weird-start-up-connectionsRSS for NodeWed, 17 Jun 2026 11:57:34 GMTSat, 25 Feb 2017 00:20:38 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to [Solved]Weird start up connections! on Sun, 26 Feb 2017 11:55:48 GMT]]>Maybe Opera is checking to update thumbnail or favicon.

Anyway, mistery solved! :yes:

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/115893https://forums.opera.com/post/115893Sun, 26 Feb 2017 11:55:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to [Solved]Weird start up connections! on Sun, 26 Feb 2017 11:34:54 GMT]]>Hi,

After some investigations, installing a new fresh copy, I found that those connections came from my imported Bookmarks.

http://imgur.com/GeEsXxk

Same bookmarks also had on browsers like Palemoon and Iridium, but I have not ever encountered these connections without clicking on them! Anyway, my apologies for wasting your time guys.

Have a nice day

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/115889https://forums.opera.com/post/115889Sun, 26 Feb 2017 11:34:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to [Solved]Weird start up connections! on Sat, 25 Feb 2017 21:47:17 GMT]]>Here all connections made by Opera at startup seems to be related to Opera's services.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/115859https://forums.opera.com/post/115859Sat, 25 Feb 2017 21:47:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to [Solved]Weird start up connections! on Tue, 24 Oct 2017 09:31:02 GMT]]>I've tested in a Clean Profile and there is no connections to those IPs.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/115854https://forums.opera.com/post/115854Tue, 24 Oct 2017 09:31:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to [Solved]Weird start up connections! on Sat, 25 Feb 2017 17:14:01 GMT]]>Hi leocg,

I don't use Turbo, Synchronize. Opera doesn't offer (or haven't found yet) any option to turn OFF Auto-Update. Same for News feed.
Of course I can't expect that Opera behave different than other chromium based browsers. 😎

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/115844https://forums.opera.com/post/115844Sat, 25 Feb 2017 17:14:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to [Solved]Weird start up connections! on Sat, 25 Feb 2017 16:11:04 GMT]]>Auto-update? VPN? Turbo? News feed? Speed Dial suggestions? Sync?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/115832https://forums.opera.com/post/115832Sat, 25 Feb 2017 16:11:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to [Solved]Weird start up connections! on Sat, 25 Feb 2017 12:57:30 GMT]]>Hi shelluser,

Actually these connections appears even after disabling all extensions (which are LastPass, uBlockOrigin). Also I disabled VPN, native Block Ads, Theme, SpeedDial/Suggestion. If I block them on my Firewall, Opera works fine! Maybe they are some kind of sponsors/partners of Opera, maybe I've wrong!

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/115815https://forums.opera.com/post/115815Sat, 25 Feb 2017 12:57:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to [Solved]Weird start up connections! on Sat, 25 Feb 2017 08:13:27 GMT]]>Are you using any plugins? That's the usual cause for external connections.

When doing some reverse lookups (dig -x) I could determine the hostnames:

;; ANSWER SECTION:
11.19.144.162.in-addr.arpa. 86339 IN PTR cloud1040.hostgator.com.

And:

;; ANSWER SECTION:
83.225.84.104.in-addr.arpa. 1782 IN PTR a104-84-225-83.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com.

The last one sounds familiar, which makes me think in the direction of plugins.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/115799https://forums.opera.com/post/115799Sat, 25 Feb 2017 08:13:27 GMT