Multiple spurious connections on firefox 31ESR startup

linux 64 bit
firefox 31.3.0 ESR
after starting firefox, homepage = blank page, looking at NetActivityViewer ( linux app )
I can observe multiple connections that FF makes, up to about 50 connections on ports 80 or 443
to some old websites that I visited long long time ago... however after about 5 minutes these connections
drop off one by one...
all addons are set to update manually, and these connections are not connected to addons...
what are these connections ???

ok, some more info on the problem:
- the website addresses the ff connects to are some that I might have visited and some completely strange/new, this is weird
- naturally I thought it could be either AdBlock or NoScript addons
so i uninstalled ( removed ) them - still same problem
- this does not happen in safe mode
- I removed all unused addons ( I have read on the web that even if
you disable addons some of them could continue to work in background )
- I can stop the connections all at once just by going offline and back online mode
- the rest of the addons I have are all cosmetic, they do not seem to
need to connect in or out
- these connections do not happen on chrome or opera, this tells me
that it's not the router, however I am on public wifi when it happens
+ followed some guidelines from this page:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-stop-firefox-automatically-making-connections
and I disabled pre-fetching just in case, no change
anti malware and anti fishing setting have nothing to do with those spurious
website connection addresses... I disabled those just in case with not change
live bookmark connections, I don't have any rss feeds enabled, and those websites are not rss type feeds anyway
again, these connections open all at once only on FF start with only one black home page window ( no websites opened ) , but then gradually drop out one by one over
a couple of minutes
I'm perplexed as to why all these connections ?

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