Thanks for the reply. Ofcourse, I disabled all the privacy settings that I can through settings in Chromium. But still, I could not avoid connections on startup on Chromium. It generally is not a problem, but I do not want Google to know whenever I open the browser :)

How does extensions update happen in Iridium? I noticed in Chromium, they check for updates frequently by connecting to the Google store. Does the same happen in Iridium? If not, how?