Why does Opera use so many sessions to external Google/Amazon IPs?

[kjellbrell]

kjellbrell last edited by

My Opera browser sometimes "freeze" because it hits the session limit in my firewall.
It seems to contact a lot of cloud IPs to Amazon/Google etc. around the world in bursts and hits my 512(!) max session per host.

What is this and what information is sent? Can you turn it off?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @kjellbrell last edited by

@kjellbrell If Opera's services/pages are hosted on AWS, that may explain the requests to Amazon,, for example.

And it's known that Opera uses Google services.

[kjellbrell]

kjellbrell @leocg last edited by

@leocg said in Why does Opera use so many sessions to external Google/Amazon IPs?:

@kjellbrell If Opera's services/pages are hosted on AWS, that may explain the requests to Amazon,, for example.

And it's known that Opera uses Google services.

But hitting more than 500 sessions in bursts is pretty crazy, what is going on?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @kjellbrell last edited by

@kjellbrell Do you have opened tabs? It can also be sites being fetched.

You need to provide more info.

[blackbird71]

blackbird71 @kjellbrell last edited by

@kjellbrell What, if any, extensions do you have installed into Opera?

[kjellbrell]

kjellbrell @leocg last edited by

@leocg said in Why does Opera use so many sessions to external Google/Amazon IPs?:

@kjellbrell Do you have opened tabs? It can also be sites being fetched.

You need to provide more info.

Yes, I usually have ~10 tabs open, but I can not see the connection to them if I look at what IPs are beeing blocked. I have not installed any extensions to Opera.
I have also disabled most things in Opera in the security/intergrity folder, I do not use VPN.

[kjellbrell]

kjellbrell @kjellbrell last edited by

@kjellbrell Problem solved, I moved to Brave browser!