Why does something start downloading when I activate Fire Fox when I updates for Fire Fox and Add ons disabled?

When I launch Firefox 18 on one of my two laptops, it starts the download of 'something', I don't know what.

1. I have automatic updates turned off Firefox.
2. I have automatic updates for plugins and addons turned off.
3. I have the automatic updates of windows disabled.
4. I have automatic updates for Kaspersky Internet Security is turned off.
5. I connect with a modem 56 k. I have monitor network activity and none occurred. My home page in Firefox is a blank page. I turn 18 Firefox and go no where but monitor my internet traffic and 2 minutes later, the download starts. I close Firefox 18 and download stops.
6 activate another browser and no download occurs even 5 minutes after activation.
7. of curiosity I went down a coffee shop yesterday, connected to their wifi and enabled Firefox 18. 89 89 megabytes later, the download has stopped. I have no idea of fricking which downloaded after that I enabled Firefox 18 but I went nowhere on the internet, just sat there and watched my Blankpage (homepage) and looked at the mysterious download take place.
8 I log on the internet today with my modem 56 k and two minutes later the download starts again.
9. I have an old desk with Firefox 3.6 something on it with Kaspersky Internet Security and it does not occur on the desktop.

Given that this only happens with Firefox 18, it seems reasonable to consider Firefox 18 related and possibly a problem of security or privacy, but I guess it could also be a question of settings. I upgrade my Internet Security every two days. I scan my laptop regularly. It still happens. I can't use Firefox for a browser because half my paltry 56 k of bandwidth is being sucked by some mysterious unsolicited download that occurs only when Firefox 18 is activated.

I appreciate your response, but now do not know if it could have been anything in this answer because...

This problem seems to have disappeared, don't know why but I have a possible theory. It's only a theory on my part, as I am not knowledgeable about the inner workings of Firefox. When I installed Firefox 18 there all automatic update options enabled by default. At the point where I turned off their all, I guess it started to download updates for all plugins and addons, like java, quicktime etc. etc. etc even if I had not personally initiated these downloads and updates. My theory is that once these downloads had begun, even if I had turned off the automatic update, it would continue the download of updates which had started and would not stop until she had done this.

I do not disable anti-phishing and site wrong detection stuff, but I seriously doubt the update for these items would have been 89 megabytes of data, but I could be wrong.

So for now, I'll close it and mark it resolved and continue to monitor to see if I have any more "strangeness" lights up.

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